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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!”

May Christian Jesus Praise Imperfect

Author:Louie Giglio

“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.”

Needs Desire Behinds Grace Worst Redemption Mortals Opponents Cooperation Imperfect God's Grace Pretext

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Knows Men Animal He Man Exercise Muscles Faculty Imperfect

Author:Frances Wright

“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.”

“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.”

Men Real Past Spirituality Space He Man Dimensions Divided Imperfect Time And Space Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Art Use Perfect Morality Mediums Imperfect

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.”

People Ifs Knows Understanding Sound Natural Perfect Communication Speech Ordinary Difficulty Rhythm Imperfect Accents Ordinary People Comprehending Phonetics Elocution

Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.”

Mind Past Order Universe Despite Our Future Happy Life Imperfect Your Future

Author:Katherine Marsh

“I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past”

Thinking Long Sometimes Past Four Promise Insight Dimensions Imperfect Bondage Fifth

Book:Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People

Source: Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People

“The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.”

Men Mind Civilization Civilized Imperfect Savages

Book:The Essential Margaret Fuller

Source: The Essential Margaret Fuller

“Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for”

Humans Wells Moments Remember Values Human Beings Judging Sick Tired Excellence Imperfect Being There Judging Yourself

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.”

Knows Writing Mean Self Reader Pages Imperfect Uncertain

Author:John Lahr

“Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective.”

“I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.”

Knows Reality Next Photography Senses Imperfect Mistrust

Author:Gerhard Richter

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

World Children Humor Kids Funny Parent Born Perfect Poor Baby Humorous Pity Imperfect Infant

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Needs Writing Looks Novel Expectations Criticism Bounds Definitions Internals Imperfect Printed

Book:This Year You Write Your Novel

Source: This Year You Write Your Novel

“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.”

World Has Beens Home Emotion Heard Normal Ideals Relation Disappointed Imperfect Outlets A Perfect World Taunting Home Life Imperfect World Suffragists

Book:My Own Story: Top Biography

Source: My Own Story: Top Biography

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

May Poetry Literature Poetry Is Imperfect Precise Geometry True You

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“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.”

Doe Facts Happens Parent Perfect Wife Definitions My Wife Imperfect Protected Not Perfect Discounts Perfect Marriage

Author:Stockwell Day

“We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?”

Ifs Media Fine Messages Who We Are Imperfect Mainstream Mainstream Media

Author:Emilio Estevez

“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.”

People May Self Sometimes Body Struggle Sick Self Realization Realization Imperfect

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“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.”

Thinking Men Needs Elements Men And Women Imperfect Formal Softness Formal Wear

Author:Paul Feig

“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.”

People Different Reality Universe Decision Situation Policy Pressure Imperfect Foreign Policy Dynamics Bad Decision Geopolitical

Author:Chuck Hagel

“We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.”

Needs Enough Government Order Church Democracy Humble Guides Tolerance Sinner Imperfect

Author:Jeff Miller

“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.”

Source: Oryx And Crake

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

Ifs Book Stories Would Be Imperfect History Books

Author:Christine Keeler

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