Quotes About Merits

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.

We often come across certain directors who mention some of their own flops as their favourites. They will blame the viewers for not realising its merits. I think that is plain hypocrisy.

The viewers have the brains to decide the merits of a film and there is no point in blaming them if it flops.

The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.

While the meritorious cause of both lies in the merits of Christ, there is a difference in the efficient cause. Speaking economically, God the Father declares the sinner righteous, and God the Holy Spirit sanctifies him.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

Further, He that cometh to Jesus Christ for life, taketh part with him against sin, and against the ragged and imperfect righteousness of the world; yea, and against false Christs, and damnable errors, that set themselves against the worthiness of his merits and sufficiency. This is evident, for that such a soul singleth Christ out from them all, as the only one that can save.

You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all. Such a person influences others, because of his positive personality traits and attracts them and as a result, he befriends all.

Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolutely the best detail for the circumstance. That wasn't much of a theory, but it was all Ruth could truly commit herself to at the moment. It was time to retire that old lecture, and her penance was to endure the compliments of her former credo.

Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

God alone, content with my weak efforts, [20]will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits.

The only thing a bucket of shit is worth is the price of the bucket.

If you keep doubting every issue you come across in life, you will never consider any issue based on its merits.

This was indeed what was meant by nobility, by intelligence of diction. Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally applied, but only as we give the names of mars, venus, saturn to planets which have nothing mythological about them. We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the gap

Recognizing the merits of the child does not diminish the authority of the father and the mother for when they come to realize that they are not the constructors, but merely the helpers of this construction, then they will be able to do their duty better; they will help the child with a greater vision.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

A uno siempre le gusta quedar bien, y después de quedar bien le gusta quedar mejor frente a quien quiere, frente a quien uno, a su vez, pretende hacer méritos para ser querido.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Without being discouraged by our sins, we should pray for His grace with perfect confidence, relying upon the infinite merits of our Lord.

Por lo tanto recibimos bendiciones espirituales por la gracia de un tercero y no por nuestros propios esfuerzos. Dos ideas opuestas no pueden ser las dos ciertas: que la gracia es tan poco costosa que cualquiera en cualquier lugar la puede ganar; y a la vez, la gracia es tan preciosa que sólo podemos obtenerla por medio de los méritos de un hombre: Jesucristo.

For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.

the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.