Best perfection & causes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.”

Causes Perfect Greater Effects Divine Creatures Perfection Agents Divine Power Greater Power

Book:On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God

Source: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God

“Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.”

Causes Perfection Misery Supreme Folly

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.”

Ifs Giving Humans Persons Happens Suffering Faith Causes Religious Human Beings Demand Perfection God Love Human Life Righteousness Love Someone Disillusioned Vindictive

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Nothing's going to stop you or deter you or cause you to give up. Pursuit, because nobody actually expects it to happen. They want you to be continuous in your efforts. And perfection because there's just nothing better.”

Want Giving Happens Causes Effort Giving Up Perfection Pursuit

Author:Frank Luntz

“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.”

People Facts Evil Causes Perfect Century Perfection Unhappiness Conformity Conform Personal Life Twentieth Century Monstrous Utopian Perfect Society

Author:Dennis Prager

“You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.”

Knows Art Facts Wisdom Causes Impossible Modern Despair Perfection Various Quarters

Author:Morris West

“Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.”

Giving May Suffering Turns Father Causes Support Strength Bears Blessing Perfection Eternity Trials Heavenly Affliction Heavenly Father Refinement

Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.”

Spiritual Causes Mistake Demand Perfection Excellence Pursue Relax Making Mistakes Not Perfect

Author:Lloyd (Bud) Winter

“Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.”

Knows Way Has Beens Causes Water Results Secret Behinds Struggle Ignorance Evolution Perfection Infinite Competition Manifestation Gates Tides

Book:Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

“On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.”

Causes Moral Hero Promise Perfection Dedication Rooted Testament New Testament Moses Abraham Idolatry Old Testament Rugged Uncompromising Inspection Yahweh Moral Perfection

Book:Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

Source: Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

“To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on the other, is plainly repugnant to the nature, not only of man, but of all created things; for, of necessity, all effects must in some proper way be connected with their cause; and it belongs to the perfection of every nature to contain itself within that sphere and grade which the order of nature has assigned to it, namely, that the lower should be subject and obedient to the higher.”

Source: The Pope and the People: Select Letters and Addresses on Social Questions

“No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.”

Ifs Want States Light Causes Progress Divine Praying Perfection Saved Within You Summit Divine Light

Author:Angela of Foligno

“A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.”

“Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.”

World Heart Kind States Joy Hate Causes Loss Perfect Virtue Sorrow Negative Perfection Relation Purity Unconscious Taoism Tao Heresy Repose Love And Hate Obstruction Sorrow And Happiness

Author:Zhuangzi

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