When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, — Perfection

"Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?"

"One last thought: perhaps our universe is perfect."

"Religious instruction should aim chiefly to turn men’s aspirations and efforts to that perfection of the soul, which constitutes it a bright image of God."

"What interest could I take in myself, except as a perfectible being? This unknown perfection, vaguely as I imagined it, exalted my will as never before in my longing to achieve it."

"Repentance always precedes perfection."

"That is the true perfection of man to find out his imperfections."