Unworthy Quotes

• The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Desire

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• Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Past, Insecurity

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• When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

  Confucius

  Self, Endeavor, Worthy

  As quoted in "Top 100 Power Verbs" by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, (p. 170), June 20, 2013.

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• There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

  Louie Giglio

  Differences, Doubt, Bigs

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• Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Kindness, Mean, Men

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• Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

  Mort Sahl

  Political, Politics, Conservative

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  You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

  Joel Osteen

  Guilty, Defeated, Ashamed

  Joel Osteen (2011). “Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

  Walter Hilton

  Desire, God Love, Worthy

  Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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• Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deeds, Morality, Objects

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.137, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

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• Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Feelings, Obstacles

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• The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

  Charles Clayton Morrison

  Funny, Christian, Humorous

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• I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

  Elizabeth I

  Suffering, Crowns, Reputation

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• He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

  Max Muller

  Yellow, Wish, Dresses

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Change, Integrity

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Commitment, Self

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Heaven, Rejection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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• I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

  Jane Fonda

  Empty, Feels, Moved

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• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  Edith Sitwell

  Taken, Fire, Discipline

  Edith Sitwell's remarks on converting to Roman Catholicism at the age of 67, in news reports, August 15, 1955.

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• If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Idols, Fame, Holy

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• He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Prejudice, Tasks, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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• I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

  Francis Walsingham

  Men, Done, Bears

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