Quotes about Imperfection

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.

Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

God gets glory when two very different and very imperfect people forge a life of faithfulness in the furnace of affliction by relying on Christ.

Can it be that man, made in the image of God, endowed with reason and speech, shall alone be unappreciative of His gifts and disobedient to His laws? Will those who might be elevated and ennobled, fitted to be colaborers with Him, be content to remain imperfect in character and to cause confusion in our world?.

Being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should live an error-free life is symptomatic of pride.

Your human love is ever so limited, full of flaws and manipulation.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.