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Quotes About Worthiness

Unworthy? I think not, Wolfling. Pure as the will of the pack, thou art.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Love has nothing whatsoever to do with deserving. We may not like it, and I don't much, but that is what our Rabbi teaches. If we are disciples, that is the discipline we must practice
~ Elizabeth Cunningham
If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
For years I'd waited for someone to love me: that was the permission I needed to fall in love myself, as though I were a pin sunk deep in a purse, waiting for a magnet to prove me metal. When that did not happen, I'd thought of myself as unlovable . ...It was this I'd waited for all my life: a love that would make me useful, a love that would occupy all my time.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
lovely exemplification of the self-diffidence of those called upon to minister in divine things, and their personal sense of unfitness and utter unworthiness. The two things are quite
~ Arthur W. Pink
Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.
~ Aubrey Rose
If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself
~ August Heckscher
I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes
~ Avenged Sevenfold
The glue of His love patches our wounds so we can keep serving as His vessels, His treasures in fragile clay jars. Despite our flaws, we are worthy to share His love.
~ Gary Chapman
Alas, madame, Raoul humbly replied, unable to restrain his tears, alas, I believe that Christine really does love him!...But it is not only that which drives me to despair; for what I am not certain of, madame, is that the man whom Christine loves is worthy of her love! It is for me to be the judge of that, monsieur! said Christine, looking Raoul angrily in the face.
~ Gaston Leroux
I am deserving of no gifts. That is so. But you must recall, Severian, that when a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but payment.
~ Gene Wolfe
It is far easier to get all the good things that our lives have to offer than it is to deserve them. We seldom have much joy of them, however, unless we deserve them.
~ Gene Wolfe
She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good enough for her, but merely asking herself anxiously how she could be good enough for Mr. Casaubon.
~ George Eliot
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
~ Saint Patrick
magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.
~ Sallust
Honour is not bestowed upon merit.
~ Sallust
It cannot be from any worthiness in our prayers, which are in themselves polluted things. But it is because God delights in mercy and condescension. He is herein infinitely distinguished from all other Gods. He is the great fountain of all good, from whom goodness flows as light from the sun.2 —JonaThan edwards
~ Sam Storms
Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are, let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be YOU!
~ Sandra Kring
You don't have to look the part, just put your price.
~ Sanita Belgrave
Wealth without real worthiness Is no good for the neighbourhood; But their proper mixture Is the summit of beatitude.
~ Sappho
Endeavor to deserve her
~ Sara Donati
I am just as worthy as the next man," Onorato would think, "even if he is rich or from an important family.
~ Sara Gay Forden