Quotes About Merit

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 world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

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.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

The amount of grace I would expect from God should be equal to the amount of grace I can gather or earn. I get out what I put in.

Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.

Something needn't be large to be good.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

A good dog deserves a good bone.

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

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.