Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.
On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
