Unmerited Kindness 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.

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

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

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