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Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!
- Isaiah 66:6
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 17:10
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.
- Jim Rohn
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
- Philip Yancey
What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.
- Charlie Munger
I deserve the best and I accept the best now
- Louise Hay
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
- Joseph Heller
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Philip Yancey
The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.
- Philip Yancey
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it
- Philip Yancey
Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.
- Philip Yancey
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
- JRR Tolkien