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Quotes About Imperfection

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.
~ Bethany Hamilton
Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
~ Desmond Tutu
How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?
~ Erin O'Connor
If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
~ Buddy Wakefield
Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.
~ Neil Young
God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.
~ Joyce Meyer
Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.
~ Bruce Willis
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm not a God, I make mistakes.
~ Boris Becker
She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.
~ Brad Paisley
God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.
~ Cassandra Clare
God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
~ Sylvia Plath
The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.
~ Taylor Caldwell
You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
~ Mary Doria Russell
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
God has made no one absolute.
~ Owen Feltham
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.
~ Dennis Prager
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
~ Henry de Montherlant
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
~ John Osborne
There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
~ Santosh Kalwar
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
~ John Steinbeck
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
~ Steven Galloway