Unworthy Quotes - Page 9

Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.

St. Catherine of Siena

Ends, Worthy, Courses

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The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

John F. Kennedy

Moving, Doe, World

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The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Pope Benedict XVI

Art, Kitsch, Void

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Francois Fenelon

Salvation, Should, Dangerous

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... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.

Robert H. Schuller

Jesus, Self Esteem, Believe

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Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

John McCain

Attitude, Grandchildren, Live For Today

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Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

Dennis Prager

Important, President, United States

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Mark Twain

Country, Lying, May

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.381, Courier Corporation

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[W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Hands, Knowing, Use

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How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

Francois Fenelon

Country, Heart, Want

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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Peter Kropotkin

Ideas, Action, Concrete

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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

John Millington Synge

Children, Writing, Men

Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Essence, Entertainment, Idolatry

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.6, Fig

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In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

John Calvin

Law, Perfect, Shining

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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

William Howard Taft

Light, Purpose, Money In Politics

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Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

Dean Koontz

Writing, Artist, Advice

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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Wilkie Collins

Men, Ruins

Wilkie Collins (1870). “Man and Wife: A Novel”, p.272

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Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

Nichiren

Real, Men, Complaining

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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

Laozi

Kings, People, Taoism

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Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Anna Julia Cooper

Natural

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.

Anatole Broyard

Character, Men, Tragedy

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The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie within our easy grasp. While it is true that each life is in and of Divine Being, hence always one with it, in order that this great fact bear fruit in individual lives, each one must be conscious of it; he or she must know it in thought, and then live continually in this consciousness.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Lying, Live Life, Order

Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

Maria Montessori

Children, Teaching, Suffering

Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

Richard Rohr

Ocean, Moving, Thinking

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If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

Horace Greeley

Memories, Practice, Principles

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