Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.