Unmerited Quotes

#1. Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Honore De Balzac

#2. Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Anonymous

#6. Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#7. The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Jerry Bridges

#10. 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

#11. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.

Anonymous

#12. Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God's wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

Joseph Prince

#14. 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

#15. God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

Timothy Keller

#18. I am disgusted with the fact that men, in general, think they have an unmerited advantage of a penis and that women fail to understand how utterly vulnerable it is.

Nikhil Sharda

#19. At the door he turned and looked back. She stood, facing away from him, the sunlight from the window enshrouding her in an unmerited halo of gold. Perhaps, he thought, that was how God saw all His children. Selfish and fallen, yes. But in the forgiving light of His Son, each wore an unmerited halo

Julie Klassen

#20. How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...

M. E. W. Sherwood

#21. So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

George Eliot

#22. An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

#23. With patience bear what pains you have deserved,
Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Ovid

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

Timothy Keller

#25. 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

#26. In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks, and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional, and gratuitous!

Pope Francis

#27. If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.

George Washington

#28. What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman