The Perfect Life

Quotes from The Life of Moses by Gregory of Nyssa on “perfection”

“One limit of perfection is the fact that it has no limit.”

“The perfection of human nature consists perhaps in its very growth in goodness.”

“This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because like slaves we servilely fear punishment, nor to do good because we hope for rewards, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by some business-like arrangement. On the contrary…we regard falling from God’s friendship as the only thing dreadful and we consider becoming God’s friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This…is the perfection of life.”