Quotes About Good

growing in faith and love for Christ, revealed as He is in Scripture, will be the greatest of all preservatives against being led astray. The person who is saturated in the teaching and spirit of the Gospels will have his or her senses trained ... to distinguish good from evil (Heb. 5:14, NIV) and to know what is truly Christ-like and Christ-honoring.

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

The best of good writing will entice us into subjects and knowledge we would have declared were of no interest to us until we were seduced by the language they were dressed in.

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

Divine Spirit within me, move me in the direction of my highest good this day. Move my mind, move my words, move my body, move my emotions, so that I am able to be my best, do my best, serve my best and experience the best.

Put out good vibes and ask others to do the same for you. I have an outgoing message on my phone, for example, that says, "I'm not in right now. Leave a positive message and I'll call you back." It's incredible how many hang-ups I get with that message. It blocks a ton of bad vibes and negative downloads. The messages that do get left are so uplifting and wonderful and make my day.

One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

The good is by virtue my willing it. Otherwise it has no existence.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my Idol experience.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.