Merit Quotes - Page 4

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.