counsel of perfection

But a counsel of perfection is easy at a study table.

These five steps are a counsel of perfection, but most surveys can include them to some degree.

But there is a counsel of perfection about such exhortations.

Such selflessness has seemed to be the counsel of perfection in many teachings.

The voluntary aspect has led it to being included among the main counsels of perfection.

To offer advice that is professional, pragmatic and practical, not academic counsel of perfection.

That this is a counsel of perfection I am, of course, conscious.

He rejected any suggestion that such information was a counsel of perfection, describing it as "standard medical practice".

Avoid clichés, Evans wrote - though he acknowledged that this was a counsel of perfection.

Or are these just counsels of perfection, to be taken with a relaxing grain of salt?

It is a counsel of perfection, but unions’ dealings with employers need not be a zero- or negative-sum game.

To distinguish between fascination and sympathy is a counsel of perfection for critics which has its spiritual analogies.

The rules of monastic life are codified in the "counsels of perfection".

(It is from this passage that the term "counsel of perfection" comes.)

Unto This Last is a counsel of perfection.

It is, therefore, the object of the three counsels of perfection to free the soul from these hindrances.

But that is a counsel of perfection, as Dean says, and I don't believe I'll ever be able to attain to it.

Worrying about even 150,000 TB deaths a year, compared with the millions who used to die, can thus sound like a counsel of perfection.

Naught but counsels of perfection for her.

The following passage from Cyprian is a good example of an utterance which was clearly meant as a counsel of perfection.

This is impossible, and the counsel of perfection too easily leads to despair and cynicism: almost inevitably, in fact.

On the other hand, by his sketching the counsels of perfection, Jesus outlined the principles on which later religious life could be based.

They have rejected those words as a counsel of perfection, as a bit of Oriental mysticism.

This is a counsel of perfection, of course, and I admit I don't always have the discipline to do it properly.

The ordinary man says "it is a counsel of perfection" and tries now and then fitfully to act up to this new and strange standard.