Quotes About Good

Art according to art! Love according to love! This is taking the salt away from Heaven. Do you think Our Savior tries to make Himself talked about? He does not ask to be recopied. God cannot be deified without ridicule. He likes to be lived. Dead languages are dead. One must translate Him into all the living languages, and help Him to hide Himself to do good just as the Devil hides himself to do evil.

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The

Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?

All that evil needs to triumph is the silence of good men« (»Alles, was das Böse braucht, um zu triumphieren, ist das Schweigen der guten Menschen«).

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

I said, If we were good always would we be happy always? No, said Grandmother. Then I shall be bad.

Even being good has unintended consequences. You're only human, after all.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... (Bk2:3)

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

In the depths of my heart, traced by nature in characters which nothing can efface. I need only consult myself with regard to what I wish to do; what I feel to be good is good, what I feel to be bad is bad.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

I was just confident my work was good.

Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.