Undeserving Quotes

“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, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The point I’m trying to make is that I am the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant, and all-around obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the misfortune to meet. I am dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful, and uncomprehending in the face of the happy. So if I didn’t understand I was being asked to be the best man, it is because I never expected to be anybody’s best friend, and certainly not the best friend of the bravest and kindest and wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing. John, I am a ridiculous man, redeemed only by the warmth and constancy of your friendship. But as I am apparently your best friend, I cannot congratulate you on your choice of companion.

Actually, now I can. Mary, when I say you deserve this man, it is the highest compliment of which I am capable. John, you have endured war, and injury, and tragic loss — so sorry again about that last one. So know this: Today, you sit between the woman you have made your wife and the man you have saved. In short, the two people who love you most in all this world. And I know I speak for Mary as well when I say we will never let you down, and we have a lifetime ahead to prove that. Now, on to some funny stories about John...”
― Steven Moffat

“Nesta had loved Cassian since she'd first laid eyes on him. Had loved him even when she did not want to, even when she had been swallowed by despair and fear and hatred. Had loved him and destroyed herself because she didn't believe she deserved him, because he was all that was good, and brave, and kind, and she loved him, she loved him, she loved him-”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.”
― Jim George

“It wasn't like he wasn't capable of happiness. It was almost as if he held himself away from it just the slightest bit. He felt undeserving of it, mistrustful of it, and the unfairness of that made her want to shake some sense into his stubborn head.”
― Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”
― Mac Canoza

“We fear many kinds of darkness, and we often feel that we don’t deserve any kind of light.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I just know,
You are going to completely lose me.
I just know,
I no longer want you to want me.
I just know,
I don’t want to wait for you anymore.

I realized,
You are not someone made for me.
I understood that,
You don’t deserve my love.

I just know,
You are going to completely lose me.”
― Jyoti Patel, The Forest of Feelings

“And now he had bestowed the long-awaited honor upon the most unlikely
of us, small and ungrateful and probably cursed.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very thing for which we pulled on heaven. You know why? In those moments we see the magnanimity of GOD's unfailing mercy to undeserving men like us.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“You think I don't deserve him,' I say to Cardan.

He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. 'Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“With His arms wrapped around me, I knew He was not willing to let me go. Undeserving and stubborn as I was, His love was greater than my rebellion, greater than my brokenness, greater than my hurt or hatred.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose