Quotes about Imperfection

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

To be human is to be beautifully flawed

Man is created for a purpose; the object of his existence is to perfect himself. Man is imperfect by nature, because if nature had made him perfect he would have had no wants; and it is only by supplying his wants that utility can be developed. The development of utility is therefore the object of our being, and the attainment of this great end the cause of our existence.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.