Quotes About Works

Faith without any actions in accordance with God's will is a dead faith

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

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

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Our soul contains energy, transformed into Spirit, expressing dreams and thoughts through works of the mind.

The limitations of literalness and an excessive reliance upon reciprocity as a principle for constructing an ultimate environment can result either in an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism or "works righteousness" or in their opposite, an abasing sense of badness embraced because of mistreatment, neglect or the apparent disfavor of significant others.