Quotes about Deserving

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

I don't deserve the best." Mona's voice broke. "None of us do. But while we were still sinners, God chose to give us His best, and He will do nothing less after we are adopted as His children. We don't deserve grace, but because of God's character, we can expect it! If this dream is from Him, then you can expect Him to make it come true.

True Love--unconditional love--declares you worthy just because it chooses you. (pg 150)

The Bible says, 'There is no one righteous, not even one.' So really, none of us deserves grace. But we all still want God's forgiveness.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.

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.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

The government was taking money, jobs, college slots, and status away from hardworking, deserving people like us and handing it all to people like them—those who didn't share our values, who didn't work as hard as we did, the kind of people whose problems were of their own making.