Demerit Quotes

23 quotes by 18 authors

Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the… — John Owen
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness… — John Flavel
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell. — Seneca the Younger
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that… — Robert Farrar Capon
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular… — C.S. Lewis
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J I Packer
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main… — Robert Browning
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my… — Theodore Roosevelt
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. — Frances Wright
The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another. — John Austin
Four misfortunes befall a heedless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, thirdly blame, and fourthly a state of woe. — Buddha
There are two aspects of the same point of view Accomplishment or demerit — Mak_786
Love of youth are Most selfish in the world. Which is not the care love of others' — Mak_786
Which are rich in selfless emotion, Thet most pure love is childhood, — Mak_786

Who Wrote These Demerit Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 23 Demerit Quotes as follows: