Quotes About Good

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

but they're amateurs. The Kid is a felon with employment offers from the DOD. He's better than good.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

We are almost all, my good General, of a nature so pitifully plastic, that we act from circumstance, and are fashioned by situation.

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit, between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitute himself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his own convenience and for his own selfish and narrow ends. This is the difference between physical laws and the moral law—the one is to be used and put to service; the other must be obeyed and served. For God says

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

Aunque no me corresponde probar la inexistencia de Dios sí puedo hacerlo. No puede existir un ser tan dañino que pudiendo en su omnipotencia hacer el bien haga la chambonada de este mundo con todos sus horrores.

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.

Good men have only to do nothing, for evil to conquer" (137).

For Faith As I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the Giver and the Gift. I cannot separate the Giver from the gift.

But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Fear is faith in evil instead of good

inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

There's no good speech save in Paris.

If you have a good voice, sing boldly. In the company of people who ask you, and by yourself for your own pleasure, sing; but do not abuse their patience, so that people will say, as they sometimes do, "Good singers are often a bore.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.