Reading And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Jon Meacham, this quote reminded me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. "'The true role, in determining to embrace, or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good"' Lincoln had told the house. P. 112
"God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realised by God, by others, and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his demands, sets up his own law … acts as if he is the creator of the Christian community, as if his dream binds men together. When things do not go his way … he becomes, first an accuser of his brethren, then an accuser of God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, pp27-28)
Bonhoeffer, February 4, 1906-April 9, 1945, wrote Life Together while leading an underground seminary in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. He was executed for his involvement for a plot against Hitler.
Simply put "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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