Quotes About Worthiness

Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind after I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

Why are you pulling away from me now? Why are you acting as if I don't mean anything to you?" He held her gaze, his own haunted and filled with remorse. "Because it isn't fair to you, letting you think I could ever be any kind of mate worthy of you." … "I'd resisted the temptation for a very long time, Melena. And it was easy. Until I found you.

I don't know how to be what you need, Leni, what you deserve. You make me want to be something I've never been before.

I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I'm yours.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

There is nothing I would not have given you to have had you deserve my old opinion of you; nothing!

Trying to convince himself that as a four-year-old boy he might have been something worth keeping.

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

Ask yourself these three questions. What do you hope for? What do you love? And how far would you go to keep hope and love alive?" Always remember you are worthy of all that you love and hope for.

Be fearless.... See yourself as beautiful.... See yourself as worthy..." Tell yourself..... "I am more than my scars.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.

God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

Just so, Christ puts the finger of mercy upon the scars of the saints! He will not throw away his pearls for every speck of dirt! That which makes this love of Christ the more stupendous, is that there was nothing in us to excite or draw forth his love! He did not love us because we were worthy—but by loving us he made us worthy!

Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.