Quotes about Entitlement

“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Have we no right to food and to drink?

Unworthy" does not mean "undeserving", for we are all undeserving! It means "incapable of receiving.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

Life is a gift, however long it lasts. It's God's to give and take away as He sees fit. We go through life thinking we're entitled to our ninety, but we're not entitled to anything. All we can do is trust that He knows what He's doing. That He has a plan for all of us, and that no pain He allows in our life will go unused.