Quotes About Goodness

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.

just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.

Dear God, Thank you for this new day, its beauty and its light. Thank You for my chance to begin again. Free me from the limitations of yesterday. Today may I be reborn. May I become more fully a reflection of Your radiance. Give me strength and compassion and courage and wisdom. Show me the light in myself and others. May I recognize the good that is available everywhere.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.

Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good.

I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good.

La fe es el conocimiento psicológico de que el bien despliega una fuerza que opera constantemente en todas las dimensiones. Nuestros intentos de dirigirla no hacen más que interferir en ella.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things.

You are not good for your own sake. That probably isn't even possible. You are good as a courtesy to everyone around you. Keeping a promise or breaking it, telling the truth or lying, matters to those around you. So there is good you can do and always do again. You do not have to believe you are good in order to act well in any specific case. You never lose that option.

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity.

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

It still amazes me every time I think of it. I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short, how I would like to be loved in a way never earned so that I would never have to keep earning it or work for it

Y es el sufrimiento del alma, sobre todo, el que hace buenos a los buenos

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. —JOHN WESLEY

In the opening pages of Genesis, we see that our Trinitarian God made everything "good." The only thing that is not called "good" is that our first father, Adam, was alone. He had creation below him, and God above him, but no one alongside of him to walk as an equal.

That was what it meant, didn't it. Being good. You didn't have to sink wells in Burkina Faso. You didn't have to give away your coffee table. You just had to see things from other people's point of view. Remember they were human.