Quotes about Merit

It is the marvel of the work of the Holy Spirit that those who really respond to the proclamation of reconciliation claim no merit whatsoever for that response, but rather find the essence of their joy in God, who reconciled us unto himself.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

and, by the merits of the Mother of Mercy, he did himself conceive and give birth unto the spirit of Gospel truth.