Unworthy Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Taken, Reason, Poor

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.151, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• 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

  Love, Hatred, May

  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1950). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”

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• Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sympathy, Christian, Pain

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• I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sympathy, Kindness, Believe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.104

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• The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

  Susan Sontag

  Party, Reality, Self

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Macmillan

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• 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

  Plato, Math, Men

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• For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Sarcastic, Dog, Men

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• Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Blessed

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• He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

  Pierre Corneille

  Infamy

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene V, 1636.

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• Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion of the world entitles to regard, whom accident has placed in heights of which they are unworthy, that he who cannot restrain his contempt or indignation at the sight will be too often quarrelling with the disposal of things to relish that share which is allotted to himself. 

  Henry Mackenzie

  Men, Sight, People

  Henry Mackenzie (1837). “The Man of Feeling: The Man of the World ...: The Stories of La Roche, Louisa Venoni, and Nancy Collins: Being the Whole of the Popular Works of the Late Henry Mackenzie, Esq”, p.5

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• May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

  Pope John Paul II

  Country, Punishment, World

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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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• Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God.

  Graham Cooke

  Kindness, Joy, Grace

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jul 05, 2011

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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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• You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Believe, Struggle

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• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Soul, World

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.65, Library of America

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