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Works: Quotations from Burning Words

Although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgments, yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree is discerned by its fruit.— ARTICLES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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

It is impossible that those who are implanted into Christ by a true faith, should not bring forth fruits of thankfulness.— HEIDELBERG CATECHISM

You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works.— T. L. CUYLER

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness. -— JONATHAN EDWARDS

It is the hardest thing in the world not to think our good works better than they are, and to make the very best keep their distance in the office of justification. Though we must be judged by and according to our actions, yet we shall not be saved by them. Many shall seek; do you strive. For wishing is one thing, and willing is another, and doing is yet another. And in regard to entrance into Christ's kingdom, our "doing" is trusting Him who has done all for us. "This is the work of God, that ye should believe on Him whom He hath sent." Does your wish lead to the acceptance of the condition Then it will be fulfilled.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.— KORAN