Goodness Quotes

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.