A Quote by Henry Allen Ironside

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

Henry Allen Ironside

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Henry Allen Ironside
American - Author
October 14, 1876 - January 15, 1951

In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

Joseph Prince

Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.

Joyce Meyer

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

Matthew Henry

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

R. C. Sproul

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

T. B. Joshua

It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.

J. Oswald Sanders

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

Philip Yancey

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Dwight L. Moody

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

Francis Chan

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

R. C. Sproul

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Philip Yancey

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.