#imperfect

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #imperfect #humor

Although we do nothing for God unto others perfectly, He nonetheless smiles upon and empowers our best efforts". ~R. Alan Woods [2010] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#grace-of-god #imperfection #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing. ↗

— Tibor Kalman

#hate #imperfections #love #unpredictability #love

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you. ↗

— P.I. Barrington

#cult #future-imperfect-trilogy #futuristic #las-vegas #romantic-suspense

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #fearless #flaws #honesty #humble

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman’s lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow. Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no — they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#imperfection #love #perfection #beauty

I've learned recently to love imperfection a lot because it shines such a big light on God's grace. And if someone has grace for you that's when you feel their love the most and they see you for who you are and they love you anyway. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#god #god-s-grace #grace #imperfection #inspiration

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #imperfect #life #limitations #perception