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• I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

  Brady Corbet

  Worry, Patient, Working All The Time

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• 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

  Principles, Obedience

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• God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Prayer, Excuse, Benevolence

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Contentment, Definitions, Defining

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit. In the mass we give Christ nothing; we only receive from Him.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Doe, Benefits

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• Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

  Heidi

  Volunteer, May, Stones

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• No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.

  Vincent de Paul

  Beautiful, Mountain, Done

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Devil, Bud

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Moving, Thinking

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Spiritual, Past, Soul

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• Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• 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

  Law, And Love, Christ

  Adam Clarke (1837). “The Preacher's Manual: Including Clavis Biblica, and A Letter to a Methodist Preacher”, p.61

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• The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Sports, Heart

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• I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Suffering, Calling, Kingdoms

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• The reward for good work is more work.

  Tom Sachs

  Rewards

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• I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must
  keep moving forward and not think much.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Moving, Thinking, Being Positive

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• Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Book, Mean

  "Lives of Northern Worthies".

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• If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Workout, Risk

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• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessed, Practice, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

  Don Nickles

  Men, Thinking, Honest

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• To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

  Eric Ladin

  Actors, Able, Easier

  "Eric Ladin Exclusive Interview the Killing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2011.

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• There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

  Marianne Moore

  Work, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Good Life, Action, Goodness

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