Quotes About Goodness

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Unto the pure all things are pure.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Goodness sold itself, badness flaunted itself about.

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

a bondade, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, é o que perdura.

Ele tinha uma presença tão apagada. Era como estar em uma sala com uma pena. Mas a alma dele brilhava com uma bondade fundamental...

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

Children are often called our greatest resource, as if they were deposits of tin. But a child is not (just as an adult is not) a lever in an economic machine, a vehicle for commerce, a revenue source for the all-powerful state. He is a human being, made in the image and likeness of God— made, that is, for goodness and truth and beauty.

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

Like Caesar, he was loyal but with this difference: he liked to do good by stealth, behind the scenes.

virtue outweighs everything and even if the good man is not supremely happy, he is on balance happy.

Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand "evil" at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.