Quotes about Flawed
Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.
- Mark Batterson
The human seed, this mass from which I was formed, is totally corrupt with faults and sins. The material itself is faulty. The clay, so to speak, out of which this vessel began to be formed is damnable. What more do you want? This is how I am; this is how all men are. Our very conception, the very growth of the foetus in the womb, is sin, even before we are born and begin to be human beings.
- Martin Luther
All the human love we've experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God's; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever.
- Paul David Tripp
Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
- Leviticus 22:25
But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
- Jeremiah 18:4
The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed
- Philip Yancey
God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.
- Philip Yancey
Ultimately, forgiveness is a choice we make, and the ability to forgive others comes from the recognition that we are all flawed and all human. We all have made mistakes and harmed others. We will again. We find it easier to practice forgiveness when we can recognize that the roles could have been reversed.
- Desmond Tutu
God is going to reveal me as a flawed human being as fast as he can and he's going to enjoy it because it will force me to grapple with real intimacy.
- Donald Miller
Indeed, an ecumenical spirit extending to the worldly, to the flawed, to the politically compromised, and to the sexually stigmatized was what separated Jesus from his rigorously puritanical mentor.
- James Carroll
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
- Samuel Johnson