Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."
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Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work."
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"If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry."
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"We can't allow science to undo its own good work."
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"In our good works nothing is our own."
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"We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden."
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"If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top."
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"Grace alone brings about every good work in us."
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"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace"
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"There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work."
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"For me, temperance is essential to good work."
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"Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work"
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"Charity is the root of all good works."
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"There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously."
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"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."
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"Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'"
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"Good workemen are seldome rich."
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"Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness."
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"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
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"Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work."
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"I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work."
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"I know what happiness is, for I have done good work."
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