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Quotes About Good

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
~ Richard Dawkins
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
~ Thomas More
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
~ Marco Rubio
Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
~ Abu Hurairah
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
~ Washington Irving
If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
~ Dennis Prager
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.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.
~ Ken Ham
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
~ Norman Maclean
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
~ Farley Mowat
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
~ Charles Colson
The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.
~ Larry Crabb
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
~ Max Weber
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
~ Yannick Noah
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
~ Voltaire
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.
~ Toyohiko Kagawa