Merit Quotes

Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

Merit clears away obstacles.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

No one is mandating merit pay.

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

I don't think the world works on merit.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

I take every job on its merits.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.