Quotes About Worthiness

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn't make us any less worthy than when we didn't feel that way.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

none of us are good enough for Alfred

The issue of how to cede to seduction is tortuous: too soon and one may appear unworthy, too slow and one may lose the interest of the partner.

I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13.

She doesn't think she's worthy to live. But she doesn't realize, she is life.

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved—isn't that playing God as well?

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve . . . I deserve to be someone's number one girl." "You are." "No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?

Maybe it's not that I'm a Mysterious Girl. Maybe it's that I'm a Not Good Enough Girl.

And you've been a big help, but I think there are other things you could be focusing on that are more worthy of your time.

The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God's grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

I've asked people why they think God would probably not use them to share the gospel with someone on a "bad" day. A typical reply is, "I wouldn't be worthy," or "I wouldn't be good enough." Such a reply reveals an all-too-common misconception of the Christian life: the thinking that, although we are saved by grace, we earn or forfeit God's blessings in our daily lives by our performance.

If you cannot give me all that I want—what my heart finds it hard now to breathe without—it is because I am not worthy. I know instinctively you could give it if I were—and if you understood,—understood the boy's heart that is in me and the simplicity of my need, which you could fill so that all my days would be radiant.

Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

You do not deserve this' he said. 'Who can say what I deserve or no?' I said. 'I've done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me

Fue la arrogancia de un hombre que se creía tan seguro del amor de una mujer que no consideraba merecedor de esfuerzo hacerse merecedor de él.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.