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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

— Charles Buck

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

— Gottfried Leibniz

It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.

— Maimonides

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

— Ellen G. White

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

— Ralph Abernathy

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

— Anne Rice

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

— Carolina Herrera

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

— Jean Rostand

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

— Rick Perry

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

— David Maraniss

✗Opposing Perspectives

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

— William Law