#works

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#also #because #considering #five #individual

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.' ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#act #bill #day #economy #everyone

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#ever #his #i #jefferson #judge

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#defensive #except #fact #fort #in fact

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#deeds #lives #memories #others #our

Paul saith, 'Not of works, lest any man should boast.' Now, faith excludes all boasting. The hand which receives charity does not say, 'I am to be thanked for accepting the gift'; that would be absurd. When the hand conveys bread to the mouth it does not say to the body, 'Thank me; for I feed you.' It is a very simple thing that the hand does though a very necessary thing; and it never arrogates glory to itself for what it does. So God has selected faith to receive the unspeakable gift of His grace, because it cannot take to itself any credit, but must adore the gracious God who is the giver of all good. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#god #grace #works #faith

That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it! ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#sovereignty-of-god #works #faith

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2). ↗

— W. Ian Thomas

#dependence #faith #good-works #jesus-christ #living-sacrifice

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fame #immortality #unfinished-works #writing #literary-criticism

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#creative works #exists #grand #human #human spirit