logo

Quotes About Good

He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
~ Bram Stoker
I will concentrate on lending you the strength of my Spirit,' I said. 'Fine. Good. You do that.
~ Susanna Clarke
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
If there were angels, would they be the good guys or the bad?" Lindsay
~ Sylvia Day
the city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.
~ Sylvia Plath
Only it would help my morale no end to feel it was a good novel.
~ Sylvia Plath
and we conclude that the division between Conservative verse and vers libre does not exist, for there is only good verse, bad verse, and chaos.
~ T. S. Eliot
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
~ T.S. Eliot
For good and ill deeds belong to a man alone, when he stands alone on the other side of death, But here upon earth you have the reward of the good and ill that was done by those who have gone before you. And all that is ill you may repair if you walk together in humble repentance, expiating the sins of your fathers; And all that was good you must fight to keep with hearts as devoted as those of your fathers who fought to gain it.
~ T.S. Eliot
If the road to Hell is paved in good intentions, a friend of mine used to say, the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.
~ Tad Williams
As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes.
~ Tahir Shah
Focusing on the good does not mean ignoring the bad, but rather the understanding that the most effective way to eradicate the bad is to do good.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
Briar: They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn. Rosethorn: All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.
~ Tamora Pierce
Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.
~ Tania Aebi
If she does call, would you please explain to her that turning the sofa into a pygmy hippo for the afternoon might be very good transfiguration, but it's rather hard on the carpets and it confuses the hippo.
~ Tanya Huff
And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
~ Ted Dekker
Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
~ Ted Dekker
In the first garden, the first Adam, me, had said, Not your will, but mine, and eaten of the knowledge of good and evil, which was judgment and grievance. In the second garden, the second Adam, Yeshua, had said, Not my will, but yours, and surrendered his life.
~ Ted Dekker