Top 1200 Imperfect Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

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.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.

The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

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

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?