Top 100 Faith Works Quotes
#1. The Devils also believe and know abundance: But in this is the Difference, their Faith works not by Love, nor their Knowledge by Obedience; and therefore they are never the better for them. And if ours be such, we shall be of their Church, not of Christ's: For as the Head is, so must the Body be.
Various
#2. The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten.
Edward T. Welch
#4. Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
Sivananda
#5. Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
George Meredith
#6. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#7. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
Diane Duane
#9. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works.
Anonymous
#10. We must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.
R.C. Sproul
#11. Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.
Frederic Bastiat
#12. Saving faith is not the enemy of good works, but their only possible source.
Michael S. Horton
#13. Prayer works (unless God has a different plan for you, that is different than what you want). Pray now. It works best if God is undecided.
Juanita Ray
#14. BEDE. (ubi sup.) Repent, therefore, and believe; that is, renounce dead works; for of what use is believing without good works? The merit of good works does not, however, bring to faith, but faith begins, that good works may follow.
Thomas Aquinas
#15. Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
Brian Cox
#16. Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. It is easy to speak God's name and to record his glory on paper and walls; but to praise God with an upright heart, to bless him for his benevolence, to call upon him in every distress, and to seek consolation from him - those are truly the greatest works, though rarely seen, alongside faith. When
Martin Luther
#19. 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.
James Mackintosh
#20. Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
Teresa Of Avila
#21. I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.
Glenn Beck
#22. As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
Richard Whately
#23. If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
Martin Luther
#25. Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#26. 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?
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#27. The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
J.C. Ryle
#28. Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#31. Good works lean on each other.
Great works lean on Faith and Hope.
Lasting works lean on Love.
Jackson Badgenoone
#32. Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#33. Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#34. The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity. The three qualities faith, hope, and charity working together, grounded on the truth and light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, lead us to abound in good works
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#35. The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.
Richie Norton
#36. My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.
George W. Bush
#37. Faith without works is like Peanut Butter without Jelly, Ham without Cheese, and Kool aid without Sugar. God helps those that help themselves
Autumn Crum
#38. We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world.
Fred Ritchin
#39. There is much more to wealth than simply a bank account with many zeros. A well-balanced, whole life is made up of wealth and success that comes from many facets; family, friends, work, faith, it is the complete person who works on each of these areas and creates the whole,
Celso Cukierkorn
#41. We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.
Peter Kreeft
#42. First and Second Kings are not disinterested, flat historical works...They stress God's sovereignty over Israel and all other nations.
Paul R. House
#43. For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
Alice McDermott
#44. Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in Christ saves.
Martin Luther
#45. What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.
Matthew Henry
#46. The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.
Bernard Lazare
#47. To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.
Rachel Held Evans
#48. They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?
Kirsten Miller
#49. Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
Harvey Rice
#50. Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
Emil Cioran
#51. The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
John Stott
#52. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
Jonathan Edwards
#53. We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good ...
William Barclay
#54. I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.
Jan Potocki
#55. I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.
Robert H. Schuller
#56. There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
Martin Luther
#58. We may now understand how spiritual life originates. It enters the heart by faith. Christ reigns in the heart with His Holy Spirit, who sees, hears, speaks, works, suffers, and does all things in and through us over the protest and the resistance of the flesh.
Martin Luther
#59. Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.
Alistair Begg
#60. Don't forget what people intend to use for harm, God can use for His greater good. Let offenses slide today, and watch how God works!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#61. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.
Brennan Manning
#63. 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
Benjamin Harrison
#64. [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy ...
Vincent De Paul
#65. The wisdom coming from above, the faith that sweetly works by love.
Charles Wesley
#66. True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.
Martin Luther
#67. 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.
Craig Groeschel
#69. Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
#70. Life works in mysterious ways, and I believe one of the biggest challenges and successes is to let go and let it be.
Brittany Burgunder
#71. That would require faith. I do not beliebe in faith. I believe it exists but I do not believe it works. I don't know what the rules are here; I can't risk throwing everything away on a long shot.
Iain Banks
#73. You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Richard Russo
#74. The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.
Martin Luther
#75. The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
Mark Galli
#76. God says clearly that vengeance is His, and our position is to be one of faith in Him, waiting patiently and lovingly as He works justice in our lives. When
Joyce Meyer
#77. People do not expect to see signs and wonders today as the disciples saw them of old. Has God changed? Or has our faith waned so that we are not expecting the greater works that Jesus promised?
Samuel Wigglesworth
#78. Evangelicals believe they are saved by grace through faith but then add a man-made waiver that you have to work as hard as you can can meet middle-class behavioral patterns to hang onto it.
Steve Stockman
#79. Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master.
Toni Sorenson
#80. I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
Tommy Lee Jones
#81. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.
Thomas Perez
#82. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#83. If God has saved you, He has saved you by faith--plus nothing. God is not accepting any kind of good works for salvation. But after you are saved, God talks to you about your works.
J. Vernon McGee
#84. People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works
Joshilyn Jackson
#85. [N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.
Vincent De Paul
#86. Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.
Jerry Bridges
#87. For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the
supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.
Martin Luther
#88. We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.
John Tesh
#89. I don't know how magical GPS works. I don't want to mess with the signal.
Faith McKay
#90. The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.
Thomas Reid
#91. If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
#92. Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
Andy Murray
#93. It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...
Sean Chercover
#94. The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.
T. B. Joshua
#95. 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.
Denzel Washington
#96. It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.
John Wesley
#97. Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing"' and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.
Martin Luther
#98. It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?
Gregory Palamas
#99. If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.
John Locke
#100. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
Joel Osteen
