Quotes about Reward
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." It
- John Wooden
One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
- St. Augustine
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
- Bruce Lee
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- Thomas Jefferson
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.
- Mark Batterson
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
- Martin Luther
For if "Free-will" cannot of itself will good, but wills good by grace alone, (for we are speaking of "Free-will" apart from grace and inquiring into the power which properly belongs to each) who does not see, that that good will, merit, and reward, belong to grace alone.
- Martin Luther
For a man does not serve that he may put men under obligations. He does not distinguish between friends and enemies or anticipate their thankfulness or unthankfulness, but he most freely and most willingly spends himself and all that he has, whether he wastes all on the thankless or whether he gains a reward.
- Martin Luther