What is "good works"

Usage examples of "good works".

With clearer perception of ethical truth than either Puritan or High Churchman, the Cambridge Platonists saw that true Christianity is neither a matter of mere belief, nor consists in the mere performance of good works.

How many of those transvestites and serial fathers ever wanted to do good works?

Papal indulgences must be preached with caution, lest people erroneously think that they are preferable to other good works of love.

That all our hopes and fears, aspirations and despairs, good works and bad, might be nothing but the most minor workings of a universe whose ultimate purpose is to ease the deserved sufferings of some drunken lout!

It was a humane act, placed, as it were, to the account of his brother, one of the little stock of good works which he determined to lay up for him beforehand, in case the young rogue should some day run short of that kind of coin, the only one taken at the toll-gate of Paradise.

And here at the Lodge she had lived ever since, a sad and lonely woman, and yet not altogether an unhappy one, for she gave much of her time to good works.

All the mental powers are now concentrated on God, and the struggle is transferred from without to the inner man, good works being now done, as it were, spontaneously.

Wherefore they ought to devote themselves to confession and other good works, lest the iron remain in the wound, and it be in vain to apply remedies.

Think upon thy sins with great displeasure and sorrow, and never think thyself anything because of thy good works.

There is no difference between security based on good works and security built on objectifying knowledge.

For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and goodness will be declared, when thou art merciful to those who have no store of good works.

Just as the wise farmer gathers his harvest and sets aside his store for the winter, so a just man will, through good works, love and the joy of Christ, earn his passage to God’.