Unmerited Favor Quotes

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

God loves you because He has chosen to do so.

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

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

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

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.

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.