Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) St. Augustine, a Latin Father, taught that righteousness consists of doing good works:
How speedily are the prayers of people who do good works heard! For it is precisely in fasting, alms, deeds and prayer that our righteousness in this life consists (In Ps. 42 Enarr. I, 8).
But Augustine made the critical distinction that Paul made, that Luther refused to make:
We do the works, but God works in us the doing of the works (De Dono Perseverentiae, 13, 33).
Somebody has to be right, I would rather be happy.
Sorry sister, we are saved by Grace alone, through our faith and by our works.
