Merit Quotes - Page 26

• The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

  J. I. Packer

  Grace, Guilty, God Is Love

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

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

  J. I. Packer

  Exercise, Love Is, Goodness

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• Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Meditation, Your Smile, Deeper

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• In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Kings, Men

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• A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

  Chanakya

  Greatness, Men, Eagles

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• Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Body, Wealth

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• Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Religious, Journey

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• The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Character, Winning

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• For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Men, Yield

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.867, Modern Library

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• The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

  Al Swearengen

  Kings, Character, Utterance

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• Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
  necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Art, Rights

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• All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

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• Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

  Lord Chesterfield

  Judging, Age, Speak

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 27 February 1748

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• Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

  Confucius

  People, Worry, May

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Blessing, Meditation, Relief

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• It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.

  Samir Nasri

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.

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• There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

  William Bourke Cockran

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Light, Ancestor

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• Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.

  Darrel Ray

  Moving, Self, Catholic

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• Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

  Richard Barnet

  Law, Weakness, Sides

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• By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Giving, Wish, Three

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.64, Tharpa Publications US

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• (They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• ...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dark, America, People

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• Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pride, Charity, Faults

  Oliver Goldsmith (1867). “The Poetical Works”, p.58

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• Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Evil, Alcohol

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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