"Perfecter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 19:21): "If thou art perfect, go, sell all [Vulg.: 'what'] thou hast," but "If thou wilt be perfect." The reason for this difference is because, according to Dionysius (Eccl. Hier. vi), perfection pertains actively to the bishop, as the "perfecter," but to the monk passively as one who is "perfected": and one needs to be perfect in order to bring others to perfection, but not in order to be brought to perfection. Now it is presumptuous to think oneself perfect, ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... are more in number than your Majesty's army and have (though I do unwillingly confess it), better bodies, and perfecter use of their arms, than those men who ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement |
