Quotes about Completeness
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
— Aristotle
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God always ignores your present level of completeness in favor of your ultimate future completeness. He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He's continually working out His ultimate perfection for you—"that they may be one just as We are one
— Oswald Chambers
Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.
— Joseph Campbell
We are saved not as souls but as wholes. (All
— NT Wright
Everything you need God already is.
— Priscilla Shirer
You and I and all men were made to find our identity in the One Mystical Christ, in Whom we all complete one another "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ.
— Thomas Merton
Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
— Hannah More
Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
— Song of Solomon 4:2
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
— Teresa of Avila
"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."
— Thomas Merton
Holiness isn't some mystical, nebulous, weird, smoky, cloudy presence. It's very practical and real. Holiness means "one"—not the number one, but one in the sense of "complete." Holiness denotes the concept of being integrated. Integrated comes from the same word as integrity. God has integrity because what He says, what He does, and who He is are the same. That's exactly what holiness
— Myles Munroe