Quotes About Works

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

There's nothing I love more than admiring the details and embellishments on the works of art that I wear.

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money.

Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.

the architecture of a system has very little bearing on whether that system works. There are many systems out there, with terrible architectures, that work just fine. Their troubles do not lie in their operation; rather, they occur in their deployment, maintenance, and ongoing development

The expanded version takes up nearly eighty pages in Volume I of his collected works.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

We have been given great responsibilities, great works to perform, and surely we will be commanded to continue—

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Retirement is the laboratory of the spirit; interior solitude and silence are its two wings. All great works were prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world.

The great works of art have about them the quality of a reminder.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of "a God who justifies the wicked" (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).

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

Holiness, then, is not necessary as a condition of salvation—that would be salvation by works—but as a part of salvation that is received by faith in Christ. The

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Eckhart approaches the problems of having on another level when he discusses the relation between possession and freedom. Human freedom is restricted to the extent to which we are bound to possession, works, and lastly, to our own egos. By being bound to our egos

Jesus didn't command his followers to feel something. He commanded them to do some things.

The truth is that church by its nature is a very general concept and most people are not looking for a church; otherwise, churches would be full of visitors every week. What people are looking for is something that works for them as individuals. And that is something specific, not general.