christian living on Good Works

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The ey...

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

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

Luther maintained that good works do not make a man good, but a good man does good works.”

For what good would their prosperity do them if it did not provide them with the opportunity for good works?

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Faith and good works are both necessary. But one is the root and the other the fruit.

A living faith is that which pours itself out in works.

Good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

In his book The Mystery of Christ , a series of fictionalized pastoral counseling sessions (based on actual events), the Episcopal priest Robert Farrar Capon shares a number of helpful ways of unde...

Trust in the Lord, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. Also delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also i...

In her memoir, Confessions of a Good Christian Girl, Tammy describes the internal turmoil she experienced trying to be a good, rule-following Christian who had unexpectedly built an entire life arou...

Live out your faith this week by doing good deeds, God is with you.

Work supplies the physical, psychological, artistic, and religious needs of communities extending to the ends of the earth. Furthermore, through work, we create abundance out of which we help meet the...

But we must add at once that the pious will not cease from good works simply because it is impossible to gain any merit by them. Rather, the greater our faith, the more and greater our works…. For sin...

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Gratitude is important not only because it helps us feel good but also because it inspires us to do good. Gratitude heals, energizes, and transforms lives in myriad ways consistent with the notion tha...

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through....

Leader: May we go from here knowing we stand upright before the Father because of Christ’s works and not our own. Go, and serve the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit!

Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but rather from the foolish view that works result in our justification.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

How is it then that we’ve come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus?

Context Standard Letter Format Recall the Greco-Roman letter form that Paul uses in Ephesians: Salutation and Greeting Thanksgiving Body Exhortations/Encouragements Closing/Farewell...

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: “If I was saved by my good works — then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through....

O God, the Father of the forsaken, the help of the weak, the supplier of the needy, you have distributed and proportioned your gifts to body and soul, in such sort that all may acknowledge and perform...

For although faith alone justifies, love is also demanded…. A living faith is that efficacious, burning trust in the mercy of God which never fails to bring forth good fruits.