Imperfect Quotes - Page 15

• Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Two, People

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers

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• To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  Richard Whately

  Order, Erring, Judgment

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.76

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• If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Dream, Hurt, Regret

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

  Chuck Smith

  Jesus, Judging, Church

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• All general judgments are loose and imperfect

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Judgment

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• Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hope, Comfort, Anticipation

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.45

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• I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!

  Mariama Bâ

  Moving, Men, Expression

  Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

  Joseph Priestley

  Knowledge, Discovery, Ideas

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

  John Owen

  Peace, Perfect, Obedience

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Imperfection, Criticism, Finals

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• There is always a but in this imperfect world.

  Anne Bronte

  Imperfect World, Imperfection, A Perfect World

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Imperfection, Wicked

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Art, Style, Ineptitude

  Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

  Harold Bloom

  Space, People, Sorrow

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

  Sidney Poitier

  Struggle, Imperfection, Life Is

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• Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, the Saviour is another. Faith is one thing, and the cross is another. Let us not confound them, nor ascribe to a poor, imperfect act of man, that which belongs exclusively to the Son of the Living God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Son, Men, Rose

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.110

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Wounds.
  Broken places.
  Possibility.
  Change.
  Steps toward holiness.
  Imperfect progress.
  The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies.
  Grace.
  Love.
  Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
  And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Hurt, Broken

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• Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

  Tony Robbins

  Action, Loser, Winner

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2009

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• I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

  Lena Horne

  Littles, Way, Like You

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• Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given.

  Ron Atchison

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Choices

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• There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self, Long, Way

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• Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

  Charlotte Beers

  Perfection, Care, Speech

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