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- Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon 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… — 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… — 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.… — 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… — 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,… — Robert Browning
- I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth,… — Theodore Roosevelt