Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
