Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist,… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“A woman of merit and worth need not knock off another's crown to feel highness.” — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image