Quotes About Good

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.

Having a good Monday today is always a better day for me, and I'm still positive about it."

Pissed at the arrogance of angels, at the rain, at the whole fucking universe, she strode out without a backward look. Venom was at the gate. Damn man looked good wet.

even if he had to coax her kiss by slow kiss. Cats were good at coaxing. It was only a more sensual aspect of their favorite game—stalking.

It's pointless to defeat evil by destroying life.

There are two kinds of females in my book: the good and the bad. The good are normal, self-aware and I could spend hours in their company. The bad are screwed up, full of insecurity and a really lethal self-doubt that makes them machines of destruction, both to themselves and others.

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through and others who came in mean and will go out mean.

He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols—if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

In a book called Why Americans Hate Politics, E. J. Dionne says, "Americans hate politics as it is now practiced because we have lost all sense of the public good."4 Without the conviction that there exists an objective good, public debate disintegrates into a cacophony of warring voices.

Though evil is still evil, the wonder is that God is greater and can turn it to good.

God has a plan and it isn't for us to understand, only to know that He has his reasons and because He is all merciful and all loving we can depend on it that there is purpose in whatever He does and it is for our own good. What you must understand without any question or doubt is that I believe this and trust him and you must, too. What

How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be good, And not spoke a word that was bad, And obliged everyone that I could.

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan

He was telling her of the great good that might be done, say, to a nunnery, by this gift of prediction, and perhaps she should become a nun and give not only her cloak but all her other gifts to God. Indeed, if she did not do that, it might appear that her prediction was from Satan, and that would indeed be a serious thing for her.

She had been brought up to believe in God. To believe in people. To believe that evil didn't really exist, that it was simply an absence of good, the way darkness is an absence of light.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Superstition and religion tell me that God responds to me. God is powerful, to be sure, but I am the real center of the universe, because God's actions are predicated upon mine. Religion and superstition say that I can make God dance by being good, and that by being bad I can force him from the floor.

Creationism is not so much about scientific argument as a call to celebrate and serve God's good creation.

Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war.