Quotes about Merit

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?

On the other hand, no man is saved mechanically or by force, but through faith, freely, by accepting the gift of God. This implies the contrary power of rejecting the gift. To accept is no merit, to reject is ingratitude and guilt. All Calvinistic preachers appeal to man's responsibility. They pray as if everything depended on God; and yet they preach and work as if everything depended on man.

I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.

The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.