Quotes About Good

Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. (Psalm 37:3–5)

God only is Creator and the supreme Good, while man is but a creature, who for that very reason cannot be the end of creation. The temporal finds its end in the eternal, the human in the divine, and not vice versa.

Life is just a frame in astronomical sense, yet it is remembered mostly by those around you, so be a good person and take a great picture.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The Bible says all things work together for good, for those who love the Lord.

All I knew was that hate was as deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

My self-esteem was affected by my anxiety over what others thought of me. That weakened my natural confidence. And made me angry. Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good. Causing mischief wasn't good.

And so I have remained... an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

I trust the process of life. Only right and good action is taking place in my life.

KIDNEYS: I seek only good everywhere. Right action is taking place. I am fulfilled. BLADDER: I release the old and welcome the new.

Confucius had said, "If a ruler's words be good, is it not also good that no one oppose them? But if they are not good, and no one opposes them, may there not be expected from this one sentence the ruin of his country?"220

Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out? That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad. But not today. Gamache stopped.

So much more comforting to see bad in others; gives us all sorts of excuses for our own bad behavior. But good? No, only really remarkable people see the good in others.

He was tired of the tyranny of the greater good.

Hope itself wasn't necessarily kind. Or a good thing.

But then, Armand Gamache thought, where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden?

Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

Some things hurtled. Some slithered. But nothing good ever came out of a blind spot.

The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,

And good men are very threatening to not good men.

where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden?

As long as the sun shone and there was poached salmon on the plate, people could be good.

Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress but we can't figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal."