Quotes about Deserving
None of us deserves God's love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9—12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment... But think of the kind and good people that you know... They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God's offer of mercy and forgiveness. God's judgment applies to them too.
- Billy Graham
People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.
- Billy Graham
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
- Booker T. Washington
Don't forget to rest in the kindnesses He pours out on you—whether you feel deserving or not. You are His child. He loves you.
- Heidi Baker
When our love grows from God's love we no longer divide people into those who deserve it and those who don't. It is this love that allows us to see the enemy as someone loved with the same love with which we are loved.
- Henri Nouwen
When our love grows from God's love we no longer divide people into those who deserve it and those who don't.
- Henri Nouwen
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
- Maya Angelou
The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.
- Frederick Buechner
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
- Earl Nightingale
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.
- Margaret Atwood