GRACE,
COMMON

Every man is someone because he is a child of god.

Martin Luther King, Jr

If we discard common grace, we are driven inevitably to one of two conclusions; either man is not totally depraved. He can do good of himself; or the good which he does is not really good at all. His virtues, his patriotism, marital fidelity, filial piety, love of his children, common honesty are all of them glittering sins. In the doctrine of man the denial of common grace leads to rankest Modernism or darkest misanthropy.

R.B. Kuiper