Quotes About Works

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.

It's important for me to sell a product that works.

Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to show an understanding how our economy works, to create jobs for the American people.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a universalism of grace that overrides the subject of human works.

it seems clear that Ibn Khaldun preferred al-Ghazali to Averroes. "He who wants to arm himself against the philosophers in the field of dogmatic beliefs should turn to the works of al-Ghazali.

All Your works shall praise You, O LORD , and Your saints shall bless You. – Psalm 145:10

Death is actually a blessing for a follower of Christ. Death represents a resting from our earthly labors and concerns. Our works will follow us. The good we've done on earth will continue to accrue. Our influence will remain and have a pass-along, ripple effect. The full results of our lives cannot be calculated until the dawn of eternity.

I . . . praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. – Daniel 4:37

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works. – Psalm 73:28

But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how are we not dealing with "salvation by (cognitive) works" and Gnosticism (salvation by special knowledge)? Fundamentalists hotly deny it, but isn't it finally a matter of believers in the right religion being saved and everyone else being disqualified?

24. It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, for the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

When, in the works of Lacan, Deleuze and Althusser, the nonsense machine began to crank out its impenetrable sentences, of which nothing could be understood except that they all had "capitalism" as their target, it looked as though Nothing had at last found its voice.

To use a popular illustration, all other religions are spelled "D-O." That is, they are based on people doing something, through their struggling and striving, to somehow earn the good favor of God. [...] By contrast, Christianity is spelled "D-O-N-E," because it's based on what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross.

Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they've done enough to warrant paradise

The task is rather to assess whether and to what degree works are Christian in their viewpoint. Christian enthusiasts for literature too often seek to baptize every work of literature that they love.

The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

New Age says you get into heaven by 'being a good person'; Christianity says it's not your works that save you --- it's God's grace through your faith in the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus (who was the only sinless and truly good person to walk the earth). God's love doesn't give us a license to do whatever we please.

To assert that a man can lose his salvation through what he does or does not do is to assert, in the final analysis, salvation by works.