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You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
- Tim Tebow
Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered.
- Samuel Johnson
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
- Samuel Johnson
The sins that should have brought condemnation on us, God laid on Jesus. God's love planned an amazing exchange: Jesus endured what we deserved so that we might enjoy what he deserved—eternal life. And the way we come to enjoy this life is by believing in Jesus. That's what he said: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life' (John 6:47; cf. Luke 8:12).
- John Piper
Therefore every breath we take, every time our heart beats, every day that the sun rises, every moment we see with our eyes or hear with our ears or speak with our mouths or walk with our legs is, for now, a free and undeserved gift to sinners who deserve only judgement.
- John Piper
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
- Ayn Rand
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
- Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
- Ayn Rand
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
- John Calvin
O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer].
- Anonymous
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
- Anonymous
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille