Quotes About Works

The position Ferry terms a "material" republication view is, as I shall also argue below, the most common view in the Reformed tradition and hardly warrants being termed a "republication" of the covenant of works in any significant sense. Ferry's taxonomy here and throughout is rather confusing and, for that reason, unhelpful

We know for certain that we are not made right with God by our good works. We are saved only by grace through faith. And while we're not saved by good works, we are saved for good works.

Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.

I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.

Bollywood is a cinema of vibrant contradictions, which works when it seems it shouldn't.

'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God's grace—not earned by your works.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

We all have goals in life, wanting better and believing for it to come true one day. But, faith without works; is dead. Trust in God, yourself and go get it.

Those who are very active in doing good works might think that they are superior to those who choose to place hearing God's word first place.

when the world produces works of art and music that are against the standards and the teachings of Christianity, that should be considered opposition against the existence and commission of the church.

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.

Tears were fated for Hekabe and Ilium's women from the day of their birth, but Dion, just when you triumphed with famous works, all your wandering hopes were cast down by the gods. Now dead in your spacious city, you are honored by patriots— But I was one who loved you, O Dion!

In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too.

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

In this, the thinking proceeds from actual experience and not from analyzing the information packages presented in the works of others.

Gli uomini empiono il tempo, e le grandi opere lo allargano.

Dati biografici: io sono ancora di quelli che credono, con Croce, che di un autore contano solo le opere. (Quando contano, naturalmente.) Perciò dati biografici non ne do, o li do falsi, o comunque cerco sempre di cambiarli da una volta all'altra. Mi chieda pure quel che vuol sapere, e Glielo dirò. Ma non Le dirò mai la verità, di questo può star sicura. Lettera a Germana Pescio Bottino, 9 giugno 1964

That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it draw to make itself attractive and plausible? We must use the natural law to recognize the abuse of the natural law; there is nothing else to use.

The Christian of academic tastes accuses his brother of undue emotionalism, of shallow argumentation, of cheap methods of work. On the other hand, your practical man is ever loud in his denunciation of academic indifference to the dire needs of humanity. The scholar is represented either as a dangerous dissemination of doubt, or else as a man whose faith is a faith without works.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...