If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.
How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.
The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.
If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments?—?but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.
Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.
Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.
Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.
Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.
If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.
One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.
Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.
If it's football season, all things sort of stop. I'm from Seattle, so I'll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.
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.
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.
If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.
If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.
When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.
There are some things worthy of risking your life for.
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought worthy of publication or worthy of anyone else to even look at.
When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.
It's one of the things about being a person with a public presence, to get to lend your name to a worthy cause.
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.
I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.
The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.
In my mind, I always felt like I was worthy. I really felt like, with my career and just the way I did it, it was Hall of Fame-worthy.
Human beings are worthy of the highest respect, but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must they be respected?
What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
So many people look up to pageants, including young girls and young boys. The message that I would hate to send to them is that you're only deemed worthy of a title or worthy of recognition or of success if you fit in a certain number.
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.
I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.
Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.
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