Quotes about Merit

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

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).

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.