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It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire. -- Martin Luther
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
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work. -- Victoria Osteen
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. -- Tony Blair
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
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. -- Tommy Lee Jones
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. -- Hannah More
I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word. -- Robert H. Schuller
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
That's the thing about faith. It works. -- Lauren Oliver
Faith without works is as dead as a doornail. -- Millard Fuller
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them. -- George Meredith
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Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works. -- Frederic Bastiat
We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead. -- John Tesh
The wisdom coming from above, the faith that sweetly works by love. -- Charles Wesley
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. -- Richard Whately
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. -- Hannah More
We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works. -- William Gurnall
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith. -- Emile M. Cioran
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit. -- Max Lucado
Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind. -- John Dryden
When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works. -- Martin Luther
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light. -- Martin Luther
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true. -- Alistair Begg
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. -- C. S. Lewis
Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine. -- Rich Mullins
Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination. -- Harvey Rice
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. -- Brian Cox
Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power. -- T. B. Joshua
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding. -- Sivananda
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance. -- Dan Millman
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already. -- Martin Luther
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
[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
Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating. -- Chris Kilham
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. -- Francis Beaumont
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
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
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
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
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. -- John Locke
God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope. -- Joel Osteen

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