Quotes about Worthiness

What our Lord wants us to present to Him is not our goodness, honesty, or our efforts to do better, but real solid sin. Actually, that is all He can take from us. And what He gives us in exchange for our sin is real solid righteousness. But we must surrender all pretense that we are anything, and give up all our claims of even being worthy of God's consideration.

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not, let your peace return to you.

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

That is why I did not consider myself worthy to come to You. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”

To this end, we always pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of His calling, and that He will powerfully fulfill your every good desire and work of faith,

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.