Merits Quotes
223 quotes by 206 authors
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of…
— Charles Babbage
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly,…
— Bryan Adams
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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is…
— Harold Brodkey
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long…
— James Buchan
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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is…
— Donald Cargill
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to…
— Morris Kline
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The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
— Leo Tolstoy
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A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His…
— Nehemiah Adams
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not…
— Agnes Repplier
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O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved…
— Brigit of Kildare
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Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
— Edward Kennedy
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
— John Calvin
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I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
— Samuel Adams
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any…
— William Hazlitt
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of…
— Roger von Oech
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Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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