Quotes About Goodness

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

you move towards thanksgiving, and you understand thanksgiving as something more than just private acknowledgement of God's goodness; you have to learn to approach it as a 'soaking-in' of what God is. 'We give thanks to thee for thy great glory', as the Prayer Book has it. When all these things come together (says Cassian) we are on fire with the Holy Spirit. And when we look at Jesus we see someone whose entire life is on fire in that way, with the Spirit.

What is the root of this separation from our basic goodness, which is the divine Goodness? Is it not our preoccupation with our narrow selves? Is it not our attachments and selfish desires and our pursuit of disparate objects that we think will make us happy, but which only make us more miserable? This is at the root of our misery: We tend to look at things and view them as "objects" separate from us. This way of looking at things divides us at the core of our being.

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

About Life: There's no such thing as a fair and easy life, tragic but true. All you can do is be a good person, do the right thing, try your hardest, never give up, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

Evil has no charm, because justice has it all.

The weak: Most people turn their backs on the weak, but those are the people that need the most help, if your going to turn your backs on some one it should be those who are evil.

Fortunately, Luke's unwavering faith in his father's innate goodness had proved to be a stronger force than the power of the dark side.

You haven't been conscripted and I have to delay my return home so I'll stay with you while you tell me about these good people you've seen. One doesn't encounter good people every day and people don't see the good in others. You are blessed, Mr. Jakob, that God has brought good people to you and that you have discovered them to be good.

?yilik demek kimseye kötülü?ü dokunmamak de?il, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde ta??mamak demektir.

Fakat hadiseler gösterdi ki, fena olmay???m tesadüf eseriymi?, f?rsat dü?memi?, zaruret olmam??. Nitekim hayat?n ilk çelmesinde yuvarlan?verdim. ?yilik demek kimseye kötülü?ü dokunmamak de?il, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde ta??mamak demektir.

Bütün iyili?ine ra?men ne kadar anlay??s?z..." dedi. Sonra yüksek sesle ilave etti "Mü?kül vaziyette kalan bir insan için böyle hükümler verilir mi? As?l iyilik tan?mad?klar?m?za yapt???m?z iyiliktir; halbuki biz bütün hüsnüniyetimizi dostlar?m?za saklay?p bunlar?n d???nda kalanlar? bir ç?rp?da ve k?sa bir hükümle fena addediyoruz!...