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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
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"I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest."
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"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."
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"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
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"Imperfection contains more information than perfection."
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"Perfection itself is imperfection."
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"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
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"The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"
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"If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case."
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
Nature
"Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works."
Purpose
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
Men
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
Mind
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
Mind
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
Death
"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."
Work
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
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"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
God
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