Quotes About Works

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

Both God and man, between whom Christ comes to negotiate, call for holiness—God's glory and man's happiness; neither of which can be attained except holiness be restored to man. Not God's glory, who, as he is glorious in the holiness of his own nature and works, so is he glorified by the holiness of his people's hearts and lives.

Fides pinguescit operibus—'faith fattens or becomes strong on works,' Luther.

It is because the Spirit of Christ, is not the one only thing that is the Desire of their Hearts; and therefore their Learning only Works in, and with the Spirit of this World, and becomes itself, no small Part of the Vanity of Vanities.

Grace is totally alien to human psychology. We want to get our house in order and then let God love and accept us. The psychology of works-righteousness and self-certification is foundational to the human psyche and totally at odds with grace.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'