Top 100 Quotes About Good Works
#1. What will you do now?'
I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'
No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?'
Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.
David Gemmell
#2. You were destined in a kairos moment to be God's poetry in motion, bringing the good works of the supernatural manifestation to a world that is dying to increase in the awe of God, whether they know it yet or not.
James Maloney
#3. Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.
David B. Haight
#4. Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform ... none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.
Billy Graham
#6. Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.
Swami Vivekananda
#7. What message may I take from you to the young people in Zion?" The answer was quick and positive. "Tell them," said the doomed man, "to keep their lives so full of good works that there will be no room for evil.
Spencer W. Kimball
#8. I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.
Matt Smith
#9. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Lisa C. Temple
#10. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
John Locke
#11. Every year ought to find us more fervent in charity; every day ought our soul to augment in strength, and be decked with new flowers of virtue and good works.
Alban Butler
#12. I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.
Joyce Meyer
#13. good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them.
Santideva
#14. Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly ... The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.
Vincent De Paul
#15. Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
Criss Jami
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Good works should always be rooted in the good news
Kevin DeYoung
#19. The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
John Wesley
#20. 6And since it is through God's kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God's grace would not be what it really is - free and undeserved. +
Anonymous
#21. Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
Heidi
#22. We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God's favor, but with the favor of His help.
Alex Brett Harris
#23. Man unquestionably has impressive powers ... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the grace extended by the atonement of Jesus Christ ... Man cannot earn his own salvation.
Dallin H. Oaks
#24. When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.
Charles Fort
#25. The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.
Edward Norton
#26. ACT9.36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Anonymous
#27. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.
Leigh Bardugo
#28. You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.
Frederick Lenz
#29. One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. God desires his people to be abounding in love and good works. To be people of integrity and honor. People who reflect his character. But we are human - sinful people capable of evil deeds.
Karen Witemeyer
#31. Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.
Miroslav Volf
#32. Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
John Milton
#33. CII ABBOT PASTOR said: Just as bees are driven out by smoke, and their honey is taken away from them, so a life of ease drives out the fear of the Lord from man's soul and takes away all his good works.
Thomas Merton
#34. On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy.
Kevin DeYoung
#35. In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
Tullian Tchividjian
#36. Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all
John Calvin
#37. As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy Graham
#38. If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.
Charles R. Swindoll
#39. It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.
Monica Johnson
#40. Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.
Charles Spurgeon
#41. 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
#42. So it's clear that nothing good can come from our good works. God insists in Scripture that believing Him is what He credits to our account as righteousness. And He gets to make the rules.
Beth Moore
#43. 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
#44. This is the foundation of the Dream - its adherents must not just believe in it but believe that it is just, believe that their possession of the Dream is the natural result of grit, honor, and good works
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#45. embracing the truth that God accepts us apart from good works is the precise thing that causes us to excel in good works.
Matt Perman
#46. If saving faith is present, it can't help but produce fruit. Good works don't save a person, but they do show that his or her faith is genuine.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#47. All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.
Johnny Hunt
#48. The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim.
Ervin N. Hershberger
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.
Paulo Coelho
#52. For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.
Bruno Of Cologne
#53. Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.
Lorraine Monroe
#54. We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.
William Gurnall
#55. The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,' ... a transformed life).
J.I. Packer
#56. 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
#57. When God begins his good works it is difficult to hold on, if you are in a passive position
Sunday Adelaja
#58. The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#59. ALTHOUGH DISCIPLES ARE TO BE SEEN DOING GOOD WORKS, THEY MUST NOT DO GOOD WORKS IN ORDER TO BE SEEN.
Anonymous
#60. Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Eliza Cook
#61. Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back ... he breaks out into good works.
Martin Luther
#62. He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God.
Miles Cameron
#63. Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
Hannah Arendt
#64. The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
Hudson Taylor
#66. God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Martin Luther
#67. I am accountable.
I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God.
By the love of God.
By the word of God.
Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.
Unto all good works.
Carlton T. Brown
#68. They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
Anne Lamott
#69. Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
Augustine Of Hippo
#70. Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps - good works.
Charles Lamb
#71. 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
#72. Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#73. 16In the same way, let your light shine before others, so n that [2] they may see your good works and o give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Anonymous
#74. Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
Herman Bavinck
#75. 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
#76. Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
Paul Klee
#77. A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.
John Dryden
#78. 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
#79. None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.
Rush Limbaugh
#80. I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
Alfred The Great
#81. The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
John H. Gerstner
#82. In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.
G. C. Berkouwer
#83. The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Augustine Of Hippo
#84. [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
#85. Good works begin with praise, worship, and honoring and exalting of God as the temper of one's whole waking life.
J.I. Packer
#86. We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.
William Jenkyn
#87. As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation ...
C.I. Scofield
#88. Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.
Robert Crossley
#89. 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).
W. Ian Thomas
#90. As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does.
Michael S. Horton
#91. It is notable that many of the Semi-Arians were men of exceptional moral rigor but apparently little gentleness,13 and although Gregory also exhorted his listeners to focus on doing good works, he reminded them, God specially rejoices in revealing Himself to the world as Love.
Justin S. Holcomb
#92. It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
Lionel Blue
#93. Religion + Good Works = Good Works
Solve for Religion.
Dan Barker
#94. There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Ellen G. White
#95. 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
#96. If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.
Billy Graham
#97. While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua Achebe
#98. If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
Martin Luther
#99. Being Lutheran is about having the theological roadblocks cleared away. No good works. No law pretending to be Gospel. No popes or piety. No moralism. Just the Gospel loudly and clearly proclaimed.
A. Trevor Sutton
#100. May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .
King Davis
