Unearned Favor Quotes

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.