Quotes about Imperfection

We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we'd pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. This is not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears.

Look, if you don't have a bad attitude and lots of things wrong with you, no serious person is going to be interested. If you feel scared, outraged, confused most of the time, come on over. Have a seat.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I'm sure) forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here—and, by extension, what we're supposed to be writing.

We won't love you if you're perfect.

a hospital for the broken, not a museum for the perfect.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.