Quotes about Merit

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

Sacrificial religion was all exposed in Jesus' response to any mechanical or mercenary notion of religion, but we soon went right back to it in many Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant forms, because the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

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?

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.