It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.
A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
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.
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.
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul said in Romans 11:6, "And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace." Our relationship with God is based on either works or grace. There is never a works-plus-grace relationship with Him.
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.
There's probably a balance between. I believe you have to know Christ. But I think that if you know Christ, if you're a believer in God, you're going to have some good works.
Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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.
Faith without works is dead.
It is by doing good that we become good.
One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done.
The works I made at the start of my career rely on the themes of war, atomic power, and outer space.
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
There are changes in the works.
