O that my soul were holy, as he is holy! O that it were pure, even as Christ is pure; and perfect, as my Father in heaven is perfect!
—David Brainerd
Lapsed man is not only deep in misery, but grossly ignorant, both that he is so, and how to recover himself from it: Sin has left him at once senseless of his state, and at a perfect loss about the true remedy.
—John Flavel
There is no perfect church. If you wait until you find a perfect church before you unite with any, you will unite with none, and thus you will belong to a church in which you are the only member, and that is the most imperfect church of all.
—R. A. Torrey
The Son Of God became man in order that He might be our perfect High Priest and be able to lead us to God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
But if everyone else has gone astray, it is your duty to follow Christ. He is the perfect example.
—D. L. Moody
God gave man and woman a perfect start, but they did not appreciate God’s perfection.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
—Sigmund Freud
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
—Michelangelo
Perfect is the enemy of good.
—Voltaire
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.
—Nikolai Gogol
To him alone, from whom every good and perfect gift cometh, be all the thanks and glory.
—George Whitefield
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
—John Locke