Quotes about Imperfection
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I'm sure) forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here—and, by extension, what we're supposed to be writing.
— Anne Lamott
We won't love you if you're perfect.
— Anne Lamott
a hospital for the broken, not a museum for the perfect.
— Sheila Walsh
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
— John Henry Newman
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
— John Henry Newman
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
— Elizabeth George
the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
— George Eliot
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
— Joseph Wirthlin
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
— Charles Spurgeon
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
— St. Augustine
People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.
— Marianne Williamson
Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136
— Mark Driscoll