Quotes About Works

All that the Ford industries have done—all that I have done—is to endeavour to evidence by works that service comes before profit and that the sort of business which makes the world better for its presence is a noble profession.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great.

Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces.

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Notice, again, it is not what one does that saves him—when it is judged, the tree is already a good tree—that's why it bears good fruit (its fruit-bearing doesn't make it a good tree). One's works identify him as a good tree, wheat, a sheep, a Christian. Conversely, the bad tree, goat, tare and the unsaved man (like a child) is also "known by his doings" (Prov. 20:11). See Romans 2:6-8 in the light of this principle.

I mean, if I am going to invest in a new model, I'd have to be sure there's a market. We will create a market, said Claire with surprising ruthlessness. That's how business works. That's how late capitalism works, I said.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

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.

I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

As the family is restored, the ministry of the household becomes stronger and stronger. Strong families mean effective evangelism. A powerful context for evangelism that is readily accessible to every family is the ministry of hospitality. Hospitality provides an opportunity to show that faith produces more than just talk. It produces works- expressions of love from the very place where love is learned- the Christian home.

It's true that we are not saved BY works, but it's also true that we are saved UNTO works (see Ephesians 2:8). In other words, works are not the CAUSE of our salvation, but they are to be a RESULT of our salvation. Works are not the ROOT of our salvation, but they are to be the FRUIT of our salvation.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ECCLESIASTES 12:14

The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible.

Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.