Quotes About Deserving

The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves."1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift.

Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen.

Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Maybe I think you're worth it.

When I signed with Ring of Honor, looking back now, I don't think I deserved it.

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

Dear Lord, I thank You that You listen to my prayers and that You answer, not according to my own goodness, but according to Yours. Help me to not let anything discourage me from coming to You in prayer—especially not my own sense that I am undeserving of Your attention and blessing. I come entirely because You are full of grace and mercy.

If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Kate summed it up: All my life, it's been going through my mind that I don't deserve to be happy. I think that's why I never got married . . . never had a good relationship . . . never allowed myself any real success. When Kate grew up, the physical abuse ended. But through self-loathing, the emotional abuse continued. Except that now, she had become her own abuser.

I had always been intrigued by the idea that you get what you believe you deserve—that positive thoughts bring positive outcomes.

subject" and "genre" are distinctions necessary for shelving a book, but necessarily ruinous distinctions for writing a book deserving of shelving

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen? Kaum hat man das erkannt, bricht der Sinn jeglicher Beschäftigung in sich zusammen, und alles, was man fortan unternimmt, kann nur noch als Teil eines Spiels geschehen. Die Christen waren schlicht Pragmatiker mit ihrem 'Liebe deinen Nächsten'. Nur das 'wie dich selbst' hätten sie weglassen sollen.

Kennst du das Gefühl, wenn man plötzlich feststellt, dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen?

She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.

This record was kind of, like, innocent. It's called 'The Innocents.' So it's the concept of being young enough to not really understand the implications of your decisions and then kind of feeling the weight later and being, like, but I was innocent. Like, did I deserve this?

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

As you think about the future . . . give thanks and trust God . . . Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us—which we do not deserve.