Quotes about Merit
Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
and, by the merits of the Mother of Mercy, he did himself conceive and give birth unto the spirit of Gospel truth.
— St Bonaventure
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
Those who are already righteous and heirs of eternal life through Christ, whose merit they accept by faith — they do good, not with the purpose of attaining eternal life, to which they are already entitled by an alien merit, namely, Christ's, but with the purpose of being pleasing and obedient to the divine voice, so that the glory of God as well as holy teaching and life are promoted.
— Martin Luther
Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
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.
— Philip Schaff
For hence it is that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to him by God, by whose merit apprehended by faith he is absolved from his sins and obtains a right to life" (1992, 16.9). Faith is thus "the instrumental cause of our justification" (1992, 16.7) and by implication of our union with Christ. Hence, believers have "immediate and absolute union" with Christ (1992, 18.25).
— William Lane Craig
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
— Mark Twain
We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.
— Martin Luther
faith alone makes all other works good, acceptable and worthy
— Martin Luther