Quotes about Recompense
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
- Confucius
Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.
- Anonymous
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.
- Andrew Murray
You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own.
- John Calvin
in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given not to what is due to our merits, but to the recompense of grace previously bestowed?"
- John Calvin
A service beyond all recompenseWeighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.
- Pierre Corneille
God won't let you down. He will bring justice; He will pay you back for what you have lost or missed out on. While you wait, be thankful and know that God's timing in your life will be perfect.
- Joyce Meyer
How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!
- Thomas Becket