Quotes About Goodness

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil,of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and help them to see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.

Dar, Fletcher, nu asta iubeÅŸti la ei! Nu iubeÅŸti ura ÅŸi r?utatea. Trebuie s? te str?duieÅŸti s? vezi adev?ratul pesc?ruÅŸ, partea bun? din fiecare. Trebuie s?-i ajuÅ£i ÅŸi pe ei s? o vad? în ei înÅŸiÅŸi. Asta înÅ£eleg eu prin dragoste. E grozav când înÅ£elegi asta.

Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.

If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would 'commit robbery, rape, and murder', you reveal yourself as an immoral person, 'and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you'. If, on the other hand, you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that God is necessary for us to be good.

Even if we allow the dubious luxury of arbitrarily conjuring up a terminator to an infinite regress and giving it a name, simply because we need one, there is absolutely no reason to endow that terminator with any of the properties normally ascribed to God: omnipotence, omniscience, goodness, creativity of design, to say nothing of such human attributes as listening to prayers, forgiving sins and reading innermost thoughts.

It seems to me to require a low self-regard to think that, should belief in God suddenly vanish from the world, we would all become callous and selfish hedonists, with no kindness, no charity, no generosity, nothing that would deserve the name of goodness.

I realize that while people may indeed fail me and turn away, there is an underlying goodness to the Universe which brings to me new friends and new situations. These gifts heal and soothe me. I see the merciful hand of providence despite my pain.

Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.

About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.

But there was no defeating evil unless people had hope. There was no going forward unless folk held on to their belief that the future could be bright, that a lamp of goodness could still shine in this realm of darkness and despair. And, although it would be far easier to curl up and hide, as many of the Good Folk had done, there would never be change unless people were prepared to take risks, to step forward and fight for a better world.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

The implications for politics were immense. If instead of ruthlessly pursuing his own self-interest to the detriment of others, a ruler would curb his ego and submit to li for a single day, Confucius believed, everyone under Heaven would respond to his goodness!

But by 'faith' Luther did not mean 'belief' but an attitude of trust and self-abandonment: 'Faith does not require information, knowledge and certainty, but a free surrender and a joyful bet on [God's] unfelt, untried and unknown goodness.

Not everyone is going to like you, son. And good people don't do good so that they'll win popularity contests. They do good because its the right thing to do.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.