Quotes About Goodness

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

If you do right, things come out right.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

Righteousness is on our side.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

In order to improve conditions on Earth, people must love. Love satisfies every need. It contains all good conditions and possibilities. It is a mighty transformer of all forces. A special light emanates from the person who has been visited by love. (14)

It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.

To be great is to keep sweetness.

As Meister Eckhart once said: When one can do the works of virtue without preparing, by willing to do them, and bring to completion some great and righteous matter without giving it a thought – when the deed of virtue seems to happen by itself, simply because one loved goodness and for no other reason, then one is perfectly virtuous and not before.

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

You are lovable. You are good. It is so good that you exist.

God's plans and purposes for us are good, even when our circumstances are far from good.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

There is no real victory unless it shares the righteousness of that man's heart.

For him, humans were born with potential and, given the use of reason and the right upbringing/education, could be ethically good. This was the very opposite of what would become the Christian view under St Augustine and the notion of original sin.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will, & wit, purity, probity, pluck, & grit. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind, and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice— these little blessings would suffice to beget an earthly paradise: make the bad people good— and the good people nice; and before our world goes over the brink, teach the believers how to think.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

Kindness is wisdom.

If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.