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“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

World Years Believe Said Christian Young Religion Values Religious Common Creatures Years Ago Perfection Islam Repeats Religious Values

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.”

Ifs Men World Want May Common Share Talent Please Consequence Perfection Stations Discretion

Book:The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.”

People Men Mind Ideas Realizing Common Greater Ideals Perfection Great Men Comparison Consistently Modest Fulfilling

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.”

“The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.”

Men Religious Perfect Common Virtue Perfection Constant Heroic Small Things Fidelity Perfect Man Common Things

Author:Bonaventure

“Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.”

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.”

Ifs Want Country Culture Perfect Common Share Civilization Perfection Not Perfect Multiracial Common Culture

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

Way Inspirational Leadership Common Effort Perfection Excellence Athlete Uncommon Common Things Striving For Perfection Striving For Excellence

Author:Booker T. Washington

“The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.”

Source: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.”

“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.”

Past Moving Form Science Water Common Air Sea Future Perfection Shining Assuming Casts Bones Wander Substance Height Exquisite Snowflake

Author:Loren Eiseley

“Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.”

World Years Belief Easy Common Return Discipline Perfection Periphery

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.”

Reason Law Common Perfection In-laws Common Law

Author:Edward Coke

“We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.”

Love Needs Should Common Judging Perspective Demand Daughter Perfection Blame Rage Tiny Common Sense God Love My Daughter Afternoon Should I God's Love Corrections God Loves Me

Author:Susan L. Taylor