Pastoral Resources

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.