The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
I said I deserved a home fight, either Philly or Puerto Rico, since I'm always going to someone else's place to fight. Everyone thought it was a great idea to go back to Puerto Rico.
It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' and I live by that. I am becoming authentic, and that's important to me. I have surpassed both my parents in terms of emotional stability, happiness and well-being. And I'm a lucky woman. I've deserved my luck.
I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it. " "And now you do?" "And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer. . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He. . . had heard that Mr. Duche. . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche. . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress. . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
You deserved to be loved. And I hope you get to marry for love and not a number.
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
. . . humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
