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Quotes About Works

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
~ Richard Whately
Faith without works is dead.
~ Bible
Death has no age limit; Appreciate each moment of life by getting to know God and doing all you can to love others through works of Faith.
~ Pauline Seaport
Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).
~ Unknown
Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.
~ Unknown
without love all works are nothing,
~ Unknown
Two were works of Gregory the Great,
~ Unknown
The works of other eighth-century chroniclers are pitifully thin compared to those written by Bede,
~ Unknown
genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works.
~ Marcel Proust
God does not need man nor his won works.
~ John Milton
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
~ John Milton
Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!
~ John Newton
that the mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
~ John Owen
It is one diagnostic trait of Homo sapiens that groups of individuals are periodically infected with a feverish nervousness which causes the individual to turn on and destroy, not only his own kind, but the works of his own kind. It is not known whether this be caused by a virus, some airborne spore, or whether it be a species reaction to some meteorological stimulus as yet undetermined.
~ John Steinbeck
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
~ Carl Jung
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
~ George MacDonald
For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.
~ Samuel Daniel
Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.
~ Ron Paul, End the Fed
Thus the men whom nature's works can charm, with God himself hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, with his conceptions; act upon his plan; and form to his, the relish of their souls.
~ Mark Akenside
This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
~ Mark Batterson
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
~ Mark Twain
Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.
~ Tammy Blackwell, Fate Succumbs
Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
~ Will Self