Quotes about Entitlement
The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?
- Paul David Tripp
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
- Genesis 25:31
Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
- Numbers 16:13
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
- Numbers 16:14
And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
- 1 Samuel 2:16
For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
- 2 Samuel 19:28
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- Matthew 20:15
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 15:29
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
- 1 Corinthians 4:7
Have we no right to food and to drink?
- 1 Corinthians 9:4
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Unworthy" does not mean "undeserving", for we are all undeserving! It means "incapable of receiving.
- Peter Kreeft