Undeserving Quotes

#1. The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

Frank Herbert

#2. The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

Cyprian

#3. In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

Andy Stanley

#4. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?

Matthew S. Williams

#5. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Francis Atterbury

#7. Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Don't feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreams - some of us realize it and some don't. You're not doing anyone any favors by living small. Embrace these truths and step up. The world is waiting.

Jillian Michaels

#8. The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

Preston Sprinkle

#10. You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Sentimentality towards the undeserving is as dangerous as agreeing to putting one foot in the grave.

K.A. Hosein

#12. A thankful heart is constantly extending grace because it has received grace. Love and grace are uneven. God poured out on his own Son the criticism I deserve. Now he invites me to pour out undeserving grace on someone who has hurt me. Grace begets grace. This

Paul E. Miller

#13. To realize God's undeserving love is to continually love others

Sunday Adelaja

#14. To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Dickens

#15. Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Anthony Lewis

#16. It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

Robert Goolrick

#17. They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

John Ruskin

#18. You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes that are considered unworthy, the "undeserving poor". Those kind of prejudices are getting worse.

Jonathan Trigell

#19. Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#21. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

Matthew Desmond

#22. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven't earned it, who haven't even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.

Bryan Stevenson

#23. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Jose Marti

#24. Whoever is ungrateful of little is undeserving of much.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

John Piper

#26. You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Jules Verne

#28. It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. "God so loved ... " And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.

John Piper

#29. There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

Scott Turow

#30. I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

Ted Dekker

#32. But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever - his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and stench at his own free will with enjoyment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.

Preston Sprinkle

#34. Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.

Mike Bickle

#35. Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

Naomi Klein

#36. If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.

Randy Alcorn

#37. Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

Hrithik Roshan

#38. Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

James Fadiman

#39. Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Peter Kreeft

#41. Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

Jim George

#42. Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#43. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#44. The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.

Jane Austen

#45. If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don't explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say "thank you" and smile; that was the purpose.

Travis Culliton

#46. That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful-- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex." ~Mary Bennett, P&P

Jane Austen

#47. Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

Elaine MacDonald

#48. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Renee Fredrickson

#49. Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need.

Lincoln Brewster

#50. Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Mark Twain

#52. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#53. We should keep our word even to the undeserving.

Publilius Syrus

#54. Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving ... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.

Chris Crutcher

#55. To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people.

Charles T. Munger

#56. There was a thoughtful pause in the conversation as the assembled Brethren mentally divided the universe into the deserving and the undeserving, and put themselves on the appropriate side.

Terry Pratchett

#57. God, it's like I have something, deep down inside of me, that i think is undeserving of love.

Jeff Lindsay

#58. Your sense of worth or deservedness shapes your life by creating tendencies. If you feel worthy and deserving, you tend to make productive choices. ("The world is my oyster.") If you feel unworthy and undeserving, you tend to make destructive or limiting choices. ("Beggars can't be choosers.")

Dan Millman

#59. There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

A.J. Liebling

#60. The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Dorothy Day

#61. Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

Criss Jami

#62. Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Criss Jami