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Quotes About Worthiness

When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
~ Oscar Wilde
But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.
~ Augusten Burroughs
.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.
~ Danielle Steel
What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.
~ Brene Brown
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
~ Angela Thirkell
God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
~ William Wordsworth
El lacayo pide; el digno merece. Aquél solicita del favor lo que este espera del mérito. Ser digno significa no pedir lo que se merece, ni aceptar lo inmerecido. Mientras los serviles trepan entre las malezas del favoritismo, los austeros ascienden por la escalinata de sus virtudes. O no ascienden por ninguna.
~ José Ingenieros
So much power places in human hands, the hands of ignorant and willful men, withoutm oral training, without proven honesty, is a weapon placed in the hands of a madman let loose in an unarmed crowd. I admit, and I want to believe like you, that the Government needs this strong right arm, but it should choose it well, from among the most worthy, and since it prefers to confer authority on itself rather than receive it from the people, let it at least show that it knows how to do so.
~ Jose Rizal
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.
~ Jose Rizal
Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
~ Joseph Addison
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
~ Joseph Joubert
Hence, if one places an obstacle to sacramental grace, 4 he receives the Sacra ment unworthily, but the Sacrament itself is not invalid; it is valid but lacking its proper form (validum et in-forme).
~ Joseph Pohle
tity of her priesthood; 20 but she has never condi tioned the validity of a Sacrament on the moral worthiness of the minister. Her early teaching on the subject is clearly apparent from the writ ings of St. Optatus of Mileve and St. Augustine against the Donatists.
~ Joseph Pohle
The remission of punishments called an indulgence is not an unconditional amnesty, but postulates in the re cipient a moral disposition or worthiness, as well as the performance of certain prescribed acts. For this reason the moral worthiness of the recipient is not endangered by an indulgence, but rather partly taken for granted and partly effected. Charity or the love of God is the font and well-spring as well as the gauge and a necessary con dition of the whole system of indulgences.
~ Joseph Pohle
Your path has been hard, harder than most," Firestar rasped. "But you fought a great battle here, and you won. You are a worthy deputy of ThunderClan.
~ Erin Hunter
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.
~ Esther Hicks
You are not here to prove your worthiness. You are worthy! You are here for the experience of joyful expansion.
~ Esther Hicks
The appreciation that Source feels for you, never-endingly, will wrap you in a warm blanket of worthiness if you will allow it.
~ Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks
I am somebody cause God don't make no junk
~ Ethel Waters
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
~ Euripides
When love is in excess it brings a man no honornor any worthiness.
~ Euripides