Moral Perfection Quotes

The negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.

… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real