Quotes About Works

The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.

All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money is to overcome anxiety. Alternatively the anxiety on which publicity plays is the fear that having nothing you will be nothing.

I answered, "Because you want them. In the eternal scheme of things that will be of inestimable and eternal value." The Lord has said that he "will judge all men according to their works; according to the desire of their hearts" (D&C 137:9).

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works. Since

See how our works lie under the curse of the law if they are tested by the standard of the law.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.

For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.

It is also to be noticed, that   the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.  

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

He asked if I had liked the book in English. I wondered whether to lie. "No," I said. "Maybe I should read it again." "Uh-huh," Ivan said. "So that's how it works for you?" "How what works?" "You read a book and don't like it, and then you read it again?

And then there's the matter of the show. Did he promise her a show? Is this how the gallery works? Is this how he and my mom got together in the first place? How many women has he done this to? His eye, his eye, everybody's always talking about his eye. But is it an eye for art or for ass?

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

And why do I hang my head in shame? Is it because I have done some wrong? Yes, my brothers, because I have sinned. Because we have all sinned. Because seeing Satan and his works around us, yet we do nothing. Therefore we have sinned. Oh there is none so blind as those who will not see.' 'Hallelujah!

those who think their God ... has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves ... betake thee to the fields; betake thee to the woods ... thou shalt be comforted ... Lay thy tired head on Nature's breast ... always there is at hand the Infinite and the Eternal: about thee, above thee ...

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.