Quotes About Good

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so, ' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner, ' he wailed.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.