Quotes About Faith And Good Works

#1. [Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

William J. Clinton

#2. What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. 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.

Martin Luther

#4. Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

Martin Luther

#5. Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

Benedict Of Nursia

#6. It is faith - without good works and prior to good works - that takes us to heaven. We come to God through faith alone.

Martin Luther

#7. Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

T.D. Jakes

#9. That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

#11. Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Adam Clarke

#12. A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

John Dryden

#13. And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

Greg Laurie

#14. As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

Hayley DiMarco

#15. We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

John Owen

#16. For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

Krista Tippett

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

William Gurnall

#18. Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Owen Feltham

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Good works lean on each other.
Great works lean on Faith and Hope.
Lasting works lean on Love.

Jackson Badgenoone

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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