Quotes about Good works

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws, but every one would of himself at all times do good works, as his confidence in God teaches him.

we shouldn't attribute the power of justification to something formed in us that makes us pleasing to God. We must attribute it to faith, which takes hold of Christ the Savior and keeps him in our hearts. This faith justifies us apart from love and prior to love. We concede that we must also teach about good works and love. But we only teach these at the proper time and place—when the question deals with how we should live, not how we are justified.

faith alone makes all other works good, acceptable and worthy

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.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

But it is an insight of faith to know and to see that good works, self-glory, and holy life do not do it, but only God's kindness.

In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

Second, an incarnational missional life is evangelistic. Just as Jesus did not merely come only to do good works for the needy but primarily to save lost people, Jesus' people are likewise to pursue lost people for evangelistic friendships.174

Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.

We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.