"Every demerit has the potential to become a…" — Mak_786

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• Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was… — John Owen
• It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and… — H. L. Mencken
• As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God… — John Flavel
• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and… — Seneca the Younger
• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we… — Robert Farrar Capon
• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies… — C.S. Lewis
• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of… — 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,… — Robert Browning
• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his… — Theodore Roosevelt

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