Unmerited Grace Quotes

#1. At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Annie Dillard

#2. At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own perception. She held a copied version, an interpretation of him, filtered through the matrix of her priorities and desires.
Therefore, surely, he only held a copy of her.

K.J. Bishop

#3. There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Rene Dubos

#4. Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.

Richard Hanson

#5. God's grace is twofold, Both unmerited favor and divine enablement. While one makes you worthy to be, the other makes you able to do.

Hope D. Blackwell

#6. A true understanding of grace - of God's unmerited favor - always provokes a life of gratitude and obedience.

Anonymous

#7. What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.

Maria Shriver

#8. Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

Bob Latta

#10. I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Caleb Carr

#11. For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ([6]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

Anonymous

#12. The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

R.C. Sproul

#13. Grace is God's unmerited favor. It is kindness and love we do not deserve, a free gift that can never be earned. This divine help and support is provided to help us through the sanctification process.

Cheryl Zelenka

#14. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.

Anonymous

#15. I can't truly have stopped breathing while he talked, but broken ceiling fans push air with more purpose than my lungs did.

Heather Cocks

#16. Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

Monica Johnson

#17. If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

V.S. Naipaul

#18. Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#19. We have to face it at last. We're not all human.

William Golding

#20. So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Patrick Macnee

#21. I know many people have said it before, but there is nothing a cup of coffee and a new pair of shoes can't fix!

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#22. It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission.

Dennis Lehane

#23. Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

Timothy Keller

#24. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#25. There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

Groucho Marx

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

Jerry Bridges

#27. And they dreamt. They dreamt and dreamt, and the stars wheeled overhead and away and the moon hid in the trees and the sun moved around the car.

Maggie Stiefvater