Quotes About Works

Think what a solemn warning there is here to all worldly and hypocritical professors of religion. Let all such read, mark, and digest these words. Jesus says to you, "I know thy works.

Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.

Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

miserable—We can see horribly clear, in the works of such a Man his whole life, as if we were God's spies.—What

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

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

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.