Unearned Quotes

47 quotes by 35 authors

Thatâ€™s how we often react when grace comes at us. Itâ€™s awkward. God offers us something thatâ€™s too good to be trueâ€”unearned, unmerited, total forgivenessâ€”and… — Judah Smith
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly,… — D. Elton Trueblood
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in… — Steven Rattner
If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present. — Anna Freud
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living. — Francois Hollande
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. — J. Edgar Hoover
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. — Ayn Rand
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned… — Ayn Rand
unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. — Ayn Rand
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
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… — Ayn Rand
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this… — William Shakespeare
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas… — Anne Lamott
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any… — Boyd Rice
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned — Patrick Rothfuss
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things… — Ayn Rand
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who… — Emily Giffin
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. — Dean Koontz

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