Mixing will not make you perfect − perfection must come from within.

1 March 1936

Perfection is not a maximum or an extreme. It is an equilibrium and a harmonisation.

Perfection is not a summit, it is not an extreme. There is no extreme: whatsoever you do, there is always the possibility of something better and exactly this possibility of something better is the very meaning of progress.

Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.

It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.

3 January 1951

You cannot expect anybody to be perfect unless you are perfect yourself. And to be perfect means to be exactly as the Lord wants you to be.

3 June 1958

Perfection is all that we want to become in our highest aspiration.

9 October 1966

Thirst for perfection: constant and multiple aspiration.