Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments.… — Mike Thompson
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms
Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the… — Henry Allen Ironside
It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the basis of what… — Leon Morris
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether… — ElRay L. Christiansen
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and… — Jeffrey Shallit
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate… — John Ricard
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ. — Billy Graham
May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while… — George Washington
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country. — James Madison
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. — Thomas Jefferson
It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music… — Bryce Dessner
The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro,… — Unknown Author
Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other ‘black’ movies have done,… — Taye Diggs
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun. — Brian Eno
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government… — Marion G. Romney
Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life — Robert D. Hales
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing… — David Sedaris

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