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Quotes About Worthy

The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.
~ Alan Cohen
you prove yourself worthy of an academic life is by getting very good grades, and you don't get very good grades without saying the sorts of things that your professors like to hear.
~ Alan Jacobs
So trivial are the traces of different natures that remain [in people]…that nothing hinders our living a life worthy of gods.
~ Alan Lightman
The Shakers also have one golden rule – back to William Morris: Do not make that which is not useful. And so it was their interpretation that all useful things should also be beautiful. God, as architect Mies van der Rohe said, was in the details and, you never know, an angel may come one day and sit on that chair – it had to be worthy of such an event.
~ Alan Moore
Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.
~ Dietrich von Hildebrand
He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.
~ Don Piper
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
~ Jack H. Goaslind
When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.
~ Henrietta Mears
Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise.
~ Jerry Bridges
Only conduct arising from love is worthy of the name obedience.
~ Jerry Bridges
Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of
~ Jerry Bridges
To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).
~ Jerry Bridges
This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have learned that a man who counts himself a shepherd is not worthy to be a member of a flock.
~ Andrew Vachss
Every second we have with these fine animals is a blessing. No creature, human or otherwise, will love you with such devotion, or trust you so fully. Remember this, Officer James. These dogs will lay their precious hearts bare to you, and hold back no part for themselves. Can anyone else in your pathetic excuse for a life say the same? Such trust is a gift from God Almighty above, so best you be worthy.
~ Robert Crais
Hospitals were for me quite suddenly no longer places of dread to be avoided but secular cathedrals of the humanist spirit, worthy of celebration.
~ Robert Manne
I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life. What is respect compared to this other thing: being happy and having satisfied the heart's pride. Even being unhappy is better than being respected. I am unhappy despite the respect I enjoy; and so in my own eyes I don't deserve this respect; for I consider only happiness worthy of respect. Therefore I must try whether it is possible to be happy without insisting on respect.
~ Robert Walser
To think creatively, to struggle with an opaque text or confounding idea, to seek connections between periods of history or disciplines of thought, and to search for the precise word or the right rhythm for a single sentence—these are human actions every bit as worthy as the wielding of a hammer, the manipulation of a surgical scalpel, or the making of a courtroom argument.
~ Roger Lundin
To defuse tensions and spread economic benefits more widely, he argued that the rich should donate large sums to worthy causes during their lifetimes
~ Ron Chernow
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway.
~ Libba Bray
Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.
~ Carlos Castaneda
No problem is trivial to the angels. They want to help you with problems big and small. You are worthy and you are loved. And bottom line, is your problem is important to you, it's important to them.
~ Eileen Anglin
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
~ Rafael Palmeiro