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• [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Order, Sweat, America

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• Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

  John Piper

  Christian, Passion, Evil

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• I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

  Francine Rivers

  Giving, People, Credit

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• Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.

  Catherine Marshall

  Feel Better, Ideas, Perfect

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• But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

  Louise Penny

  Children, Home, Past

  Louise Penny (2009). “The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.372, Minotaur Books

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• Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Believe, Passion, Make Or Break

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• I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don't, fine, that's good.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Believe, People, Appreciate

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• Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Order, Space, Actors

  "The Dark Knight - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sir Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

  Edward Norton

  Crazy, Stress, People

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• If you are truly involved in a film and if you are going to do any kind of good work, you have to have that full commitment to the work. If you aren't willing to do that, or if that is not in your nature, I say steer clear of it.

  Jay Cassidy

  Commitment, Kind, Film

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

  Maureen Lipman

  Eye, Ideas, Two

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• It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Sides, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Genius, Way, Sticks

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• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  R. C. Sproul

  America, United States, Doctrine

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• In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Light, Rocks, People

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• They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Israel, Justice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.26, Anchor

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• The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity. The three qualities faith, hope, and charity working together, grounded on the truth and light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, lead us to abound in good works

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Light, Working Together

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• What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.

  David Gemmell

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

  Paul Simon

  Doe, Can Do

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• If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love You, Want, Way

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• It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

  Rachael Ray

  Hard Work, Thinking, Long

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Phones, Work Out

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• We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  Real, Trying, Way

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