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Quotes About Worthiness

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?
~ Alison Uttley
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
~ Philip Sidney
All love relationships are controlled by an element of fear—that of acting, or becoming, unworthy of the loved one's approbation.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade. And when this enchantment has fled, then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love.
~ T. S. ARTHUR
preparation, and even your worthiness to live your dream. Their negative voices are always more than eager to offer an opinion. Often such disparaging commentary comes from those who have accomplished very little. They
~ T.D. Jakes
I've never got the self-flagellating middle-class belief that being poor and having a petty crime habit magically makes you more worthy, more deeply connected to some wellspring of artistic truth, even more real.
~ Tana French
As a friend of mine put it, "Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing." When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.
~ Tara Brach
The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved
~ Tara Brach
We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.
~ Tara Brach
Although the trance of feeling separate and unworthy is an inherent part of our conditioning as humans, so too is our capacity to awaken
~ Tara Brach
Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.
~ Tariq Ramadan
He understood how life was an undeserved bounty, how even the most virtuous were not worthy of the glories of the mortal plane.
~ Ted Chiang
when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway. Ethan
~ Ted Chiang
So minutes later, when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway.
~ Ted Chiang
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!
~ Paul Washer
You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
~ Gautama Buddha
Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
~ Giacomo Casanova
Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.
~ Mustafa Mahmud
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
~ Euripides
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth
~ Giacomo Leopardi
When young men prepare, bless, and pass the sacrament in worthiness and reverence, they literally follow the example of the Savior at the Last Supper and become like Him.
~ Robert D. Hales
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
~ Whittaker Chambers