#perfection

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. ↗

— River Phoenix

#peace #perfection #vegetarianism

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#bothers #competitive #court #different #different person

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#contained #form #hold #i #men

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#know #maketh #our #perfection #us

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ↗

— Michelangelo

#make #perfection #trifle #trifles

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#another #error #extended #god #human