Perfect, Perfection
Perfection primarily represents God who alone is perfect by nature. Following the Call of Christ: "Be perfect, therefore, as your Father in heaven is perfect"[1], his Disciples can also become "perfect" by Grace, to their small measure as creatures, by striving to practice the Virtues, supported by the Graces provided by the Sacraments.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- No man is perfect, but I am perfect, I, because He who speaks to you is the Word of the Father. It is from God, His Thought, made Word. I have Perfection in Me and that is what you must To Believe if you believe that I am the Word of the Father.[2]
- I want in you the perfection of love, and for that I tell you: "Be perfect, therefore, as your Father in heaven is perfect."[3]
- Remember that you have the obligation to be more than all others without fault. Remember that God gives you a great treasure but He wants you to account for it.[4]
- You are still too stagnant. Your movement toward perfection is almost imperceptible. Do you not know that time passes quickly? Do you not think that in the short time you have left, you should strive to become perfect?[5]
- If God, who knows the capacities of men, tells them: "Come to Me. Be perfect," this means that He knows that man, if he wants, can become so.[6]
- To Lazarus resurrected: I say to you, man whose The Spirit is purified by the Grace received through Purification: "Be perfect as Our Father in heaven is perfect, and as I am. Be perfect, that is, be like Me who have loved you to the point of going Against all the laws of life and death, of heaven and earth, to have on Earth a servant of God, and for Me a true friend, and in Heaven a Blessed one, a great Blessed one." I say this to all: "Be perfect."[7]
In the other works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of June 10: There are those who are perfect: they seek me only because they know that my joy is to be Host in the Heart of humans and that there is no greater joy for them than to become one with me. In these, the Eucharistic union becomes fusion ...[8]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
- "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.’"[9]