Quotes About Unearned

This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.

Pe cruce, Isus ne-a d?ruit darul suprem al bun?t??ii nemeritate.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

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

Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded - those wonderful things that we take for granted.

the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

Mercy unearned undeserved, unnecessary. If it isn't all of those it isn't Mercy. If you think people have to earn it, deserve it, or it is necessary to do it, you have lost the mystery of Mercy and forgiveness

La beauté est un don du ciel énorme, immérité, accordé de manière aléatoire et stupide.

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—

God's grace does not operate on a reward for works basis. It is much better than that.

He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her love, but he thanked the Lord he had it. Then again, when was love ever given because it was deserved? Respect and honor were earned. Awards were deserved. But love was a gift from one heart to another.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned.

A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

So this isn't in any sense acquittal through moral performance, or a reward for good conduct. It's not something earned by years of carefully crafted holiness. It's a wholly "free gift," as Paul says five times in the span of three verses.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

That's grace, man - what you're given, not what you deserve

grace, man—what you're given, not what you deserve.

Beating God to the punch is about reaching out for what you could have never earned, achieved, or deserved.

This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And