Quotes About Good

I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason as it were expostulated with me t'other way, thus: Well, you are in a desolate condition, 'tis true, but pray remember, Where are the ten? Why were not they sav'd and you lost? Why were you singled out? Is it better to be here or there, and then I pointed to the sea? All evils are to be consider'd with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

if God much strong, much might, as the devil, why God not kill the devil, so make him no more wicked?

all the good things of this world are no farther good to us, than as they are for our use: and that whatever we may heap up indeed to give to others, we enjoy as much as we can use, and no more.

All Evills are to be consider'd with the Good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

I hereby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness.

And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.

God's viewpoint, on the other hand, sees the flesh as weak and incapable of continuing in good. This viewpoint results in the emphasis of man's need of spiritual power and utter dependence upon faith, which is how he experiences this power. If one can see the flesh as God sees it, he will tend to recognize the reality of his weak nature and look to Christ for the power to overcome.

Your sufferings must be borne, for you suffer in the cause of good. See how great we have become! ...Though your groans fill the air, isn't it sweeter to live in our own hands than in the hands of the gods?

Weather is a great metaphor for life sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.

On behalf of your captain, Jack Daniels and myself, welcome aboard. I expect sunshine and good attitudes today for our trip. Enjoy the ride."

"'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!"

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.