Quotes About Goodness

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

If the Spirit of Christ had come to a man, the "fruit of the Spirit" would appear: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control";

After all, not doing bad things is not the same as doing good things, but that is why you and I will never become saints.

And why do you imagine that we would want beauty? Beauty mocks us, for we have none. Goodness appalls us, because we have no goodness. We are all that this world is not, and we are all that you are not.

And I told him that I believed in God because I had seen His opposite. I had seen all that He was not, and been touched by it, and so I could no more deny the possibility of an ultimate goodness to set against such depravity than I could deny that daylight followed darkness, and night the day.

Ears were blocked to reason, and eyes blocked to goodness.

God is good, not in some abstract, religious definition of the word "good." Not a "sit still, shut up and say your prayers" good. Not just "good for you" like cough medicine. God is really sweet, yummy to the tummy, delectable and exquisite-taste and see that the Lord is good!

The inward working of God's goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety—when He turns our water into wine.

Relate to softness of heart like the air that you need to breathe. It's your living connection to goodness. Open your heart and it lives.

Being annoyed by anything is an anesthetic to grace and goodness. Instead, let annoyance be love that kisses you with broken lips. Only your tenderness toward it is its balm.

Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Be kinder than necessary.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Beauty lives with kindness.