Quotes about Deserve
The idea that God gives people what they deserve, that our misdeeds cause our misfortune, is a neat and attractive solution to the problem of evil at several levels, but it has a number of serious limitations. As we have seen, it teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt even where there is no basis for guilt. It makes people hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.
- Harold S. Kushner
I will criticize individuals when they deserve criticism, but I will not condemn entire populations. We have seen where that leads.
- Harold S. Kushner
I really believe that if you deserve something then one day you will get it.
- Felipe Massa
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
- Aesop
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
- Aesop
We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.
- Napoleon Hill
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
- Thomas Jefferson
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
- Anonymous
But what if God wasn't behind us, but in front of us, in front of our dreams...making a way for them not because we deserve it...but because He just delights in us?
- Susan May Warren
Listen, the character of God is full of mercy—not giving us what we do deserve—and grace—giving us what we don't deserve. You say you don't deserve God's help, but by your very words, you prove He isn't trying to destroy your dreams. Ask God for help. If you don't think you deserve it, then perhaps that is exactly what God wants to delight you with, to show how much He loves you.
- Susan May Warren
don't judge God based on your understanding of people. God isn't just a really good guy up in the sky. He is God. He operates on an entirely different set of rules. We'll never deserve His love, but He knows that, and He's chosen to love us anyway. We can accept it or not. But that doesn't change who He is. He's a God who loves us more than we can imagine and desires to fulfill the dreams He gives His children.
- Susan May Warren