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“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life”

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”

Mind Humans May Art Faces Turns Race One Day Eternal Losing Noble Human Race Merit Disgrace Pacifism

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.”

Self Birth Eternal Charity Western Chains Defined Broke Merit Productive Stations Satisfying Behalf Boundless Western Society

Author:Ibn Warraq

“I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.”

Ifs Men Earth Company Hell Eternal Late Eternity Catholic Merit Historian Resurrection Congregation Pascal Jesuit Perdition

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.”

Firsts Real Soul Sin Principles Virtue Eternal Rewards Profit Mortals Merit Good Work Mortal Sin

Book:The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)

“You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!”

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.”

Christ Grace Our Lives Ready Sweet Eternal Conscience Mercy Merit Invites Resurrection Reliance Eternal Life Atonement Hope And Faith

Author:David A. Bednar

“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.”

World Body Law Spirit Order Divine Materials Eternal Real Life Agents Merit Acquire Observing Material World Divine Power Eternal Happiness

Author:Allan Kardec

“I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement with Christian doctrine is important, but there has to be a time when we receive God's gift of grace - not that we've earned it or merit it or deserve it - but receive this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased on the cross for us.”

Thinking Believe Important Christian Jesus Grace Eternal Intellectual Deserve Crosses Doctrine Merit Agreement Plus Formulas Verses Eternal Life Christian Doctrine Free Gifts

Author:Lee Strobel

“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”

Persons Whole Moments Earth Universe Effort Accepting Activity Eternal Merit Realms Dimensions Sand Grain Sentient Beings Grains Of Sand

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

Humans Justice Sin Race Eternal Glory Mercy Salvation Punishment Human Race Merit Attributes Display Damnation Predestination Attributes Of God

Author:John Calvin