Quotes about Imperfections
Here's where the certainty is: My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.
- Lysa TerKeurst
It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways.
- Lysa TerKeurst
It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways." Overcoming
- Lysa TerKeurst
Here's the bottom line. Good decisions will often have elements of not so good. And not-so-good decisions have elements of good. Either way, if I'm hoping to be able to know the perfect choice and then move forward with certainty, I'll probably not move forward. Here's where the certainty is: My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
- Samuel Johnson
If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
- Thomas a Kempis
Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
- Oprah Winfrey
Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.
- Hannah More
The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
- Martin Luther
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
- William Hazlitt
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
- Francis de Sales