Quotes About Good

Life has its share of happy and sad. Some laughter and tears. Some good and some bad. I just want to say I'm glad I have you to share those times with and God's precious love too.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.

Dr Pessimist Anticant never recognised 'that in this world no good is unalloyed, and that there is but little evil that has not in it some seed of what is goodly.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

We must never forget the impact of our actions, both good and bad. We must strive to make a positive difference in the lives of those around us, and to leave the world a better place than we found it (Kneubuhl 108)

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.

God save us from people who mean well.

A person who has not done any good in his life dies like a beast.

Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

He who does good and throw it in the Nile will be rewarded by God in the desert.

The bad news is time flies like an arrow and the good news is the bow is in your hands.

The benefit of good thoughts in life is that even if they are forgotten they don't perish.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

God wants us to recognize good as good, evil as evil, and never confuse the two. Individuals and societies become wicked in the sight of God when they pervert justice and ethics by confusing or even reversing the definitions of good and evil.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

To discern good and evil, we must, as the Scripture says, be trained in the word of God. In order to wage spiritual warfare against the deception of Satan, we must know the truth, and know it with accuracy, precision, comprehensiveness, and be able to communicate and defend it. The study of logic helps us clarify and organize our thoughts. It helps us to understand the arguments others present to us, whether they are good or evil, right or wrong.

We implicitly acknowledge an objective standard that defines what is good. As Christians, we believe that God had existed before all else, and that he is the creator of all that exists. We also know that he is a "good" God (Psalm 34:8), and therefore he is the one who defines what is good.

Romans 1 informs us that an innate knowledge of God has been placed in the mind of man, and it is from this that we derive a concept of what is good.

Paul also tell us that sin distorts the knowledge of God in our minds, which explains the lack of agreement in defining good and evil.

Know that there is good, and that there is evil. These two are not the same, and God does not want us to confuse them. He wants us to be able to tell the difference between the two, and to be wise and possess deep insights concerning goodness, but he does not want us to be skillful regarding how to devise and accomplish evil. For such to occur, we must be knowledgeable with the word of God.