Quotes About Goodness

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

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.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

The essence of love is kindness.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.

The universe was good because he was in it.

He only stopped once, to pick her some great blue violets. She thanked him with real pleasure. In the company of this common man the world was beautiful and direct. For the first time she felt the influence of spring. His arm swept the horizon gracefully; violets, like other things, existed in great profusion there; would she like to see them? 'Ma buoni uomini.' He bowed. Certainly. Good men first, violets afterwards.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Were you snubbed?" asked his son tranquilly. "But we have spoilt the pleasure of I don't know how many people. They won't come back." ". . . full of innate sympathy . . . quickness to perceive good in others . . . vision of the brotherhood of man . . ." Scraps of the lecture on St. Francis came floating round the partition wall.

The sense of purity is a puzzling and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts as one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.