What They Said

“Christ is our justification, from which follows that our good works, if they are of Christ, are good; but if ours, they are neither right or good.”

Ulrich Zwingli 

“You are to do good works as zealously as if you were to be saved by your good works, and you are to trust in the merits of Christ as though you had done nothing at all.”

Charles Spurgeon

“If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterwards. If he gives you faith, he gives you good works after- wards.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!”

George Whitefield

"God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands."

J. Hudson Taylor

"We do the works, but God works in us the doing of the works"

Augustine

"He clearly showeth, that those who seek any saving enjoyments in such a way, do walk according to their old natural state; and that the true manner of living by faith in Christ is, to walk as those that have all fulness and perfection of spiritual blessings in Christ by faith, and need not seek for them any other way to procure them for themselves.   In this sense it is a true saying,  That believers should not act for life, but from life. They must act as those that are not procuring life by their works, but as those who have already received and derived life from Christ, and act from the power and virtue received from Him."

Walter Marshall

(1628-1680)

"Since Christ is our righteousness, our works are good only insofar as they are of Christ."

Ulrich Zwingli