“A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.” KnowsMenMindWisdomChristianLyingChristianityTeachWisePerfectionTranquillity Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.” MenWayLightActionSpiritualChristianityVisionMankindPossibilityDivineBuddhismPerfectionAimCharityIslamNobleFaithfulHeightHinduismDevotedWiserJudaismDivine LovePaganism Book:The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings Source: The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings
“The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.” SelfDiesChristianityConditionsBirthPerfectionSurrenderWillingnessFrustratedEgocentricSelf Perfection Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.” MenPersonsOrderSpeakPerfectChristianityFindingsPerfectionAlasPerfect Person Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.” FeelsSoulReligiousPerfectChristianityDivinePaintingPureShadowPerfectionHarmonyPaintStriveMelodyEndeavorStrifePencils Author:Michelangelo