Quotes About Scorekeeping

I just need to count the rounds and count me money afterwards.

The human race is positively addicted to keeping records and remembering scores. What we call our "life" is, for the most part, simply the juggling of accounts in our heads. And yet, if God has announced anything in Jesus, it is that he, for one, has pensioned off the bookkeeping department permanently.

God's program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.

you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: "the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping score.

The solution Merton suggests is that we should quit keeping score altogether and surrender ourselves with all our sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the scorekeeper but only his child redeemed by Christ.