Nicholas Sparks Quotes

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

I stand behind these words: I'm a Christian, but I'm not perfect.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.