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How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

How will you get God's grace? When you discipline yourself. How will you know how to discipline? By observing others that had walked the path successfully to the goal of perfection. Who are these men who had walked to the goal? It is these that are known as Gurus. So you need their help, their personal example, their encouragement and their grace. Thus, we have come round to the answer that a Guru is necessary as well as his grace. Everything is necessary-- Atma Kripa, Guru Kripa and Isvara Kripa.

How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.

Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel. This is because our faith and hope and knowledge all ultimately depend on a person who is infinitely worthy of trust - because he is absolutely and eternally unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.

i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

I fight for perfection

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.