Quotes About Good

worry, my sweet girl," Todd told her. "I try to be good.

The homeliest service that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plough or dig, if done in obedience and conscience of God's commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best works for their kind, preaching, praying, offering evangelical sacrifices, if without respect of God's injunction and glory, are loaded with curses. God loveth adverbs; and careth not how good, but how well.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish." - The power of your subconcious mind

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Dear Editor: It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch…. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

There is among us a tendency to consider true, good and fine everything that appears under the agreeable cloak of revolt against the accepted "truths", especially if supported by people who are, or call themselves, anarchists. This shows a deficiency of that spirit of investigation and criticism that should be maximally developed in anarchists.

Good preachers don't preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn't do a preacher no good to preach for God. He's got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That's what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things.

Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.

The treaty, though it has good points, is a vast trap.

What's with the hair today?" He pokes it for good measure. "I was tired this morning." "Uh-huh. I can tell. You look like you brushed it with a fork." "Worked for Ariel." "Doesn't work for you.

Feeling good equals allowing the connection; feeling bad equals not allowing the connection—feeling bad equals resisting the connection to your Source.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.

He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Joy is what God gives, not what we work up. Laughter is the delight that things are working together for good to those who love God, not the giggles that betray the nervousness of a precarious defense system.

The kingdom is here. We are in it. The "sum of money" that we are left with is not something to be guarded, protected, and kept safe, but put to good use.

I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it.

The bad feeling is the body knowing and pushing toward what good would be.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.