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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. -- Mort Sahl
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -- Oscar Wilde
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. -- John Dewey
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. -- Elizabeth I
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. -- Plutarch
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
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
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
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus. -- George Whitefield
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. -- William Graham Sumner
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious. -- Joel Osteen
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. -- Confucius
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. -- Jane Fonda
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?' -- Jim Caviezel
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. -- Russell Baker
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used. -- Gottfried Leibniz
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
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. -- Akhenaton
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
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. -- Whittaker Chambers
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. -- Charles Spurgeon
He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation. -- Francis Scott Key
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. -- James E. Faust
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in. -- Michael Moritz
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! -- Rachael Ray
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. -- Martin Van Buren
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. -- Maya Angelou
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. -- Sharon Salzberg
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. -- Tara Brach
What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities. -- James E. Faust
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love. -- Gary Zukav
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
Fear betrays unworthy souls. -- Virgil
Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women. -- Wilkie Collins
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life -- Pierre Corneille
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life. -- Pierre Corneille
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one? -- Charles Dickens
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy. -- Henry David Thoreau
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. -- John Ruskin
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. -- Honore de Balzac
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? -- Jeanette Winterson
We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy. -- Wayne Dyer
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature. -- Benjamin Whichcote
There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference. -- Louie Giglio
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. -- Edward Gibbon
It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures. -- Marie Bashkirtseff
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women. -- Camille Paglia
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. -- Will Durant
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work. -- Marvin J. Ashton
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. -- Elbert Hubbard
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means. -- Stephen Covey
A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy. -- Walter Hilton
Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. -- Peter Kropotkin
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. -- Pope John Paul II
How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect? -- Elif Safak
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. -- George Carlin
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind. -- Doreen Virtue
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Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt -- Charles Spurgeon
Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere. -- Wayne Dyer
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust. -- James Madison
I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens. -- Jim Burke
For the worthy there are many rewards on God's earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe -- Moliere
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! -- Emile M. Cioran
I felt my true, unworthy self to be far away from his clutching grasp, hidden from his admiring gaze. -- Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife. -- Elbert Hubbard
What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves. -- Laozi
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. -- Mark Twain
I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy. -- Lloyd Kaufman
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too. -- Ben Jonson
Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good -- Dennis Prager
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. -- Samuel Johnson
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy -- Bertrand Russell
In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God. -- Simone Weil
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness. -- Baltasar Gracian
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. -- Sorin Cerin
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
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation. -- Adolf Hitler
Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job. -- Ron Fournier
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him. -- Roger Ebert
I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. -- Marilyn Sewell
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe. -- Gautama Buddha
Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy. -- Claire Danes
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Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly. -- Laverne Cox
Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man. -- Nichiren
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. -- William Hazlitt
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. -- Thomas Jefferson
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. -- Plato
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away. -- Robert E. Lee
When the worst student hears about the Way, he laughs out loud. If he did not laugh, it would be unworthy of being the Way. -- Laozi
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
I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self. -- Tara Brach
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others. -- Timothy Keller
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom. -- E. B. White
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. -- William Ellery Channing
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. -- Coventry Patmore

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