Imperfect Quotes - Page 28

• As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Views

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• To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Brother, Imperfection, Treats

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

  Louie Giglio

  Christian, Jesus, May

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• Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Grace, Desire, Needs

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• He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

  Frances Wright

  Exercise, Men, Animal

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• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Determination, Dirty, Hard Work

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• Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

  Chuck Hagel

  Reality, People, Decision

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• Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Past, Men

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• You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Thinking, Needs

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• Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Baby, Children

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• The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. . . . Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and . . . our system of free government would be imperfect without it.

  John Tyler

  Men, Office, Support

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• This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Expectations, Criticism

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Home, Imperfect World, Normal

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Struggle, Self, People

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• The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  Ghetto, Jew, Humans

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• ... 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.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Unpredictable, Ifs, Pretense

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• It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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• Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Real, People, Perfect

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" by Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

  Mary Antin

  Eye, Progress, Facts

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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• My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

  Stockwell Day

  Perfect, Wife, Parent

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• Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.

  Bo Sanchez

  People, Goal, Laughing

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• My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

  Victoria Moran

  Calling, Chance, Celebrate

  "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Perfect, Use

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) preface

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• I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

  Maureen McCormick

  Thinking, Self, Roles

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY Intreview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

  Christine Keeler

  Book, Would Be, Stories

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