Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.
Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).
I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
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