Quotes by Merit It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe merit fool literature Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him. John Calvin holiness merit christ Merit challenges envy. John Dryden merit envy challenges Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe merit littles men The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own. John Calvin merit names christ There is a proud modesty in merit. John Dryden modesty merit proud There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. John Lubbock merit believe Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case John Maynard Keynes merit real reason The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive. John Maynard Keynes merit unattractive principles But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple. John Kenneth Galbraith retarded merit simple Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest. John Locke merit theatre men No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. John Rawls merit starting natural ...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father. John Milton merit father world We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe merit blame proud The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. John Updike artistic merit writing I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe merit attention enemy Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it. Jonathan Edwards merit satisfaction suffering The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo Dos Santos merit competition views Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti merit poetry praise There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. Jorge Luis Borges impossible-things merit intellectual «678910111213141516»