Quotes about Imperfection
Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.
— Billy Graham
We don't live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.
— Billy Graham
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
— Bob Marley
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
of "entire *sanctification," that is, that a Christian's life of purity takes place in two stages: through initial sanctification at *conversion and through a second event of sanctification later in the Christian's life (often called "the second blessing" or "entire sanctification") during which the Christian is freed from the bonds of the sinful nature, even though the believer continues to live in an imperfect body and an imperfect world.
— Stanley Grenz
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
— Brene Brown
In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.
— Brene Brown
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Philip
— Brennan Manning
Sometimes we feel trapped in our humanness. We experience keenly how things fall short of our expectations.
— Henri Nouwen
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
— Henry David Thoreau