Best perfection & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.”

Men Inspirational Mind Inspiration Artist Suffering Perfect He Man Perfection

Author:T. S. Eliot

“There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.”

Wells Made Suffering Perfect Dog Words Of Wisdom Perfection Fellows Profound Saint Wit Mortals Manifest Concealed Latent Estimating Wit And Wisdom

Book:Stickeen

Source: Stickeen

“At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.”

Ends Suffering Middle Buddhism Enlightenment All Things Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.”

World Moments Joy Suffering Buddhism Equal Perfection Stillness Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.”

Mind May Ideas Reality Suffering Buddhism Perfection Ideation Living Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.”

World Two Desire Suffering Buddhism Enlightenment Perfection Endless Luminous Two Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.”

World Light Suffering Perfect Buddhism Perfection Impression Planes Dimensions Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.”

Kind Littles Soul Suffering Choices Forget Deals Lord Sacrifice Demand Approach Understood Perfection Saint Oneself I Realized Our Lord Sanctity

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“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

“Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.”

World Feels Heart Stills Ideas Soul Form Purpose Suffering Force Path Duty Creatures Goodness Perfection Conviction Heavy Faculty Merciful Parental Heavy Heart Bright Ideas

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.”

Christian Suffering Three Praying Perfection Three Things

Author:Anthony Mary Claret

“Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.”

Heart Seems Suffering Order Found Morning Perfection Remains Angry Guarantees Worth It Leather Disregarded

Author:Emo Philips

“The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.”

Suffering Bears Perfection Beast

Author:Meister Eckhart

“There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.”

Humans Enough Joy Suffering Too Much Music Is Perfection Irony Emphasis Human Suffering

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering would reduce that perfection, so God cannot suffer. More thoughtful theologians take the phrase in the sense of one of the confessions of faith that talks of God as being "without parts or passions" - he is not physical as we are, and not subject to "passions" in the sense of uncontrollable emotions that can take charge of us at times. God is not "emotional," if that word is used as some kind of weakness.”

Kind Philosophy Suffering Passion Perfect Emotion Emotional Weakness Perfection Greek Thoughtful Confession Theologian

Author:Christopher J. H. Wright

“The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities.”

Reality Suffering Perfection Bothered

Author:Christopher J. H. Wright

“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”

Love Suffering Perfection Loved Ones Preoccupation

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.”

Kind Children Age Suffering Found Husband Demand Perfection Extraordinary Buried

Book:Keturah and Lord Death

Source: Keturah and Lord Death

“We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.”

Stills Dream Suffering Garden Perfection Exile

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.”

Ifs Reason Suffering Crosses Perfection

Author:Teresa of Avila

“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

“The wonder is not that there should be obstacles and sufferings in this world, but that there should be law and order, beauty and joy, goodness and love. The idea of God that man has in his being is the wonder of all wonders. He has felt in the depths of his life that what appears as imperfect is the manifestation of the perfect.”

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