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“Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”

Light Perfect Virtue Cutting Goodness Perfection Shining Cease Labour Statues Crooked Shrines Godlike Splendour Overcast

Book:The Six Enneads

Source: The Six Enneads

“All true and living devotion presupposes the love of God and indeed it is neither more nor less than a very real love of God, though not always of the same kind; for that Love one while shining on the soul we call grace, which makes us acceptable to His Divine Majesty; when it strengthens us to do well, it is called Charity; but when it attains its fullest perfection, in which it not only leads us to do well, but to act carefully, diligently, and promptly, then it is called Devotion.”

Wells Kind Real Soul Grace Divine Perfection Catholic Shining Charity Devotion God Love Acceptable Real Love Majesty

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.”

Perfect Buddhism All Things Perfection Shining Misunderstanding Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Mind Stills Ideas Soul Beautiful Form Values Beauty Cases Shapes Understood Perfection Shining Mere Admire Shells Pearls Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”

Knows Sometimes Done Painting Fine Perfection Shining Clean Paint Quitting Polish

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.”

Soul Light Amount Perfection Shining

Author:Lynn Robinson

“[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

“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”

Ifs Needs Bigs Would Be Goal Internet Perfection Shining Useless Programming Crap Jewels Convenient Browsers Mozilla

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Soul Perfection Shining Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in other things more of His wisdom is seen, and in others more of His power. But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.”

Goodness Glory Perfection Shining Redemption Attributes

Book:The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick

Source: The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick