Pastoral Resources

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

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.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

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.

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.

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.