"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

So you also, when you do all you have been ordered to do, must say, 'We are good-for-nothing slaves! We have done only what we ought to have done!' "

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

Stop drinking nothing but water; take a little wine for the good of your digestion and for your frequent attacks of illness.

But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?