Quotes about Worthiness
God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.
— Margaret Atwood
Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.
— Thomas a Kempis
Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
— Thomas a Kempis
It cannot be from any worthiness in our prayers, which are in themselves polluted things. But it is because God delights in mercy and condescension. He is herein infinitely distinguished from all other Gods. He is the great fountain of all good, from whom goodness flows as light from the sun.2 —JonaThan edwards
— Sam Storms
There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.
— Marianne Williamson
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
— Mark Twain
it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.
— Aristotle
God] had respect to himself, as his last and highest end, in this work; because he is worthy in himself to be so, being infinitely the greatest and best of beings. All things else, with regard to worthiness, importance, and excellence, are perfectly as nothing in comparison of him. All that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ultimate end of God's works is included in that one phrase, the glory of God.
— John Piper
In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
APRIL 19 I LOVE YOU regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are
— Sarah Young
Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste
— Graham Greene