Quotes about Completion

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Remember, it's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.

It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather, the Pentateuch has a diverse compositional history spanning many centuries and was brought to completion after the return from exile.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The argument is at an end.

the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his power and reigning, ruling on earth as in heaven, delighting the whole creation by sorting out its messes and muddles, its injuries and injustices, once and for all.

the point about God's authority is that the whole Bible is about God establishing his kingdom on earth as in heaven, completing (in other words) the project begun but aborted in Genesis 1—3.