It's not done until it ships.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

A book is not completed till it's read.

The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

low stage of progress, and follow their own nature closely in the intercourse and dealings which they have with God, because the gold of their spirit is not yet purified and refined, they still think of God as little children, and speak of God as little children, and feel and experience God as little children, even as Saint Paul says,106 because they have not reached perfection, which is the union of the soul with God.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.

"I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage to set eyes on it. Hitherto I have had no success; and though I have young legs, I am almost weary from running back and forth...

Once or twice I have been on the verge of bending the knee. But at the last moment, when I already had my handkerchief spread on the ground, to avoid soiling my trousers, and I made a trusting appeal to one of the initiated who stood by: "Tell me now sincerely, is it entirely finished; for if so I will kneel down before it, even at the risk of ruining a pair of trousers (for on account of the heavy traffic to and from the system, the road has become quite muddy)," - I always receive the same answer: "No, it is not yet quite finished." And so there was another postponement - of the system, and of my homage.

System and finality are pretty much one and the same, so much so that if the system is not finished, there is no system."

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Faith, even when profound, is never complete. It has to be endlessly sustained or, at least, preserved from destruction.