Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to… — Pat Benatar
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity. — Saint Augustine
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of… — Thomas Gray
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be… — Lewis Fry Richardson
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about… — Vincent de Paul
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties.… — Vincent de Paul
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work,… — Vincent de Paul
It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but… — Vincent de Paul
[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything… — Vincent de Paul
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him. — Vincent de Paul
Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those… — Vincent de Paul
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson
Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God,… — Samuel I. Prime
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. — William Godwin
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation — William Sloane Coffin
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself… — Karl Kraus
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And… — Charles Stuart Calverley
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. — Timothy Keller

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