The End of All Perfection

How much misery has been brought about in the world by man’s vain dreams of perfection and the misery caused by seeking it in this world! Utopian schemes: communism, capitalism, socialism, all madness and empty dreams without God; The perfect husband; the perfect job; the perfect town; the perfect children; the perfect church, the perfect minister, etc., not realizing that in seeking perfection in any of these, they are committing idolatry. Even worse, the perfect person or thing may be dead and gone: the church you used to go to; your mother, your father....