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Merit: Quotations from Burning Words

He who thinks to be justified by any strength or merit of his own, and not by faith, puts himself in the place of God.— WILLIAM FAREL

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.— MARTIN LUTHER