Quotes about Demerit

the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.