Quotes About Goodness

It's not enough to just be good. We gotta do good! Even if things get scary!

That's easy for you to say! You're just a kid. You don't know what a rotten, horrible place this world can be. It can be so cold...so cruel...so unforgiving..." "Papa...That's why we need to be good.

Be good, be honest and fair, find something I believe in, work hard and keep the faith no matter how long it takes?

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

But surely it was not God's will to give us a child with handicaps. God didn't do this, right?" "It's a mystery, Daddy. You won't be able to understand it all till you get here and see all of the rooms and one-inch pictures. But this you can trust: God is always good.

Her sweet little cry like that of angel among demons

Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

in spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

What would you concede if it didn't matter who got the credit? What would no longer matter if you were not hostage to the accomplishment tally? How much peace could you claim by trusting that the choices that you made for goodness would ultimately turn out right? Just picture the freedom that comes with living a surrendered life.

Not only do I have good friends, but I also have friends who are good.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

Upon the right constitution of checks all goodness of government depends.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

JEREMIAH 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

I lead God's people on the path of righteousness and my inheritance is filled with good and wonderful things.

in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in their dust.

He knew, with unwavering certainty, that just like organic beings, artificial ones had the same capacity to bring goodness into the universe, as much as they could do the opposite. The nature of a sentient being's origin did not matter. It was the expression of that life that created light or darkness.

These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.