Merit Quotes
When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.
Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.
