Perfected Man Quotes

#1. In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#3. We build cars, not intellectuals

Jeffrey K. Liker

#4. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

John Barth

#5. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

#6. Do you think anything else can go wrong tonight?"
Kaden turned to look at Nicholas coming up behind her and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I'd say all kinds of things could go wrong.

Christine Feehan

#7. The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

Josef Pieper

#8. Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Confucius

#9. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Aristotle.

#10. As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

George MacDonald

#11. Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. You don't ever expect to fall in love with words. No one can anticipate such a thing. But should it happen, God help you, because it will seem that no existent man is enough; none can equal what you have perfected in your mind.

Jennifer DeLucy

#13. Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

Scott Hahn

#14. Was now the time to look forward to the doom of parting, and stop looking back at the doom of meeting?

Eudora Welty

#15. An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Elinor Wylie

#16. This name reminds us of Baptism, which should be practiced in daily tribulations and produce its effects so that we grow into a new and perfect man (cf. Eph. 4:13-15) and in this way the name of Christian be perfected until our name and Old Adam are abolished. Therefore

Martin Luther

#17. Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

AainaA-Ridtz

#18. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

D.J. MacHale

#19. Just as God, above all, is free of every need and self-interest, the spiritual man who has the Spirit struggles and becomes perfected in the love according to Christ, love that is delivered of all need and self-interest.

John Romanides

#20. Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

Julie Foudy

#21. The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

Brandon Mull

#22. When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

Gustav Stickley

#23. I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Silvia Colloca