Merits Quotes

223 Merits quotes by 201 unique authors

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you… — Dan Barker
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the… — Thomas Jefferson
Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;… — John Bunyan
Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in… — Gertrude the Great
I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. — Mason Cooley
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its… — James Packer
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… — James Russell Lowell
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing.… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits. — Charles Spurgeon
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… — Friedrich August von Hayek
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
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 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
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
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying… — Samuel Adams
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look… — Alexander Hamilton
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success… — Woody Allen
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray… — Robert E. Lee
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience — Rene Char
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw

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