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“All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.”

Ifs Perfect Secret Too Much Dangerous Ought Circumstances Occasions Not Perfect All Occasions

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.”

Should Mean Feelings Christian Courses Grows Christ Perfect Christianity Practice Particular Circumstances Pleasant Preacher Imitation Beard Bachelors Idiotic Perfect Practice

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”

“Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.”

People Perfect Missing Events Circumstances Preserves Agendas Timing Fingerprints Lining Up Perfect Timing

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that He is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows. He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way He will put everything together, see to every detail... arrange every circumstance... and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.”

“No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”

“Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.”

Trying Perfect Mistake Honest Circumstances Method Not Perfect Right Direction

Author:Anita Roddick

“Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.”

Mind Soul Action Spiritual Winning Perfect Too Much Progress Duty Circumstances Quiet Simplicity Your Soul Anxious Spiritual Life Crave

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.”

Wells May Seems Perfect Audience Circumstances Assuming Advertising Receptive Advertising Business Never Assume

Author:Tom Verlaine

“The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.”

“Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.”

Perfect Circumstances Trust In God

Book:Perfect Trust

Source: Perfect Trust

“You see, when we talk about perfect trust, we're talking about what gives us roots, character, the stability to handle the hard times. Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.”

Giving Hard Character Perfect Talking Circumstances Roots Handle Hard Times Stability Trust In God

Book:Perfect Trust

Source: Perfect Trust

“The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.”

Lost Wealth Perfect Circumstances Truth Is Islands Empires Enchanted Living Happily

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“I wish the constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable.”

Believe Made Wish Perfect Opinion Doors Circumstances Constitution Unions Amendments Adoption Desirable Sincerely Hereafter

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789

“If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.”

Ifs Should Answers Perfect Century Circumstances Consequence Improvement 20th Century

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“We should remember that none of us is perfect and none of us has children whose behavior is entirely in accord with exactly what we would have them do in all circumstances.”

Should Children Remember Perfect Circumstances Behavior Accord

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”

Sometimes Moments Perfect Circumstances Do The Best Perfect Moments

Book:Just Listen: A Novel

Source: Just Listen: A Novel

“The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9)".”

“The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.”

People Want Needs Feels Has Beens Done Facts Wanted Lying Wish Perfect Written Circumstances Realised Compounds Perfect Life

Book:Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

Source: Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence