Quotes About Merit

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Within Zen one seeks nothing. You can gain no merit, no faith is required of you, no savior is necessary, there is no just reward, no choice in all things, nor is there any desire for attainment.

St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the merits of those to whom it is ad ministered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him by whom it has been instituted, [it is] for the perdition of those who use it badly and for the salvation of those who use it well." 30

satisfaction blots out the temporal punishments due to sin. Consequently the just man must be able to merit de condigno forgiveness of the temporal punishments remaining after absolu tion. Like all good works, those whereby satisfaction is made for sins are reducible to three classes: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. This is the express teaching of Trent. 32 Scripture tells us that these three kinds of good works blot out sin and are accepted by God in satisfaction of both guilt and punishment.

they envisage the Infinite Being Himself (infinitum), but they do not envisage Him in an in finite manner (infinite). As a keen eye, says Richard of Middletown, 77 perceives the same color more dis tinctly than a weak eye, so the saints' supernatural power of vision is proportioned to the measure of their merits, that is to say, to the different degrees of the light of glory vouchsafed to each, although they all be hold the same object. 78

Beauty is less important than quality.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

If you're talented, you can't be ignored.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

I think one of the most important things for a young player's development is that they understand that they will play when they deserve the right to play.

Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.

Hope is almost dead in you, forever. All that's left of it is that last gleam, without which any task is impossible and any merit vain. That's what really matters -- the absence of hope. Everything else is nothing.

Passions may do good by chance, but there can be no merit but in the conquest of them.

the social scientist who lacks a mathematical mind and regards a mathematical formula as a magic recipe, rather than as the formulation of a supposition, does not hold forth much promise. A mathematical formula is never more than a precise statement. […] The chief merit of mathematization is that it compels us to become conscious of what we are assuming.

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

For the labourer is worthy of his hire.

Bill O'Reilly

We are taught desire rather than deserve. Just because we want it must mean we are able to get it, right?

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