Quotes about Merits

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

— St. Thomas Aquinas

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

— CS Lewis

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 only good?

— Teresa of Avila