Quotes About Goodness

A simti impulsuri distructive nu inseamna ca esti rau,inseamna ca esti doar dezechilibrat. Poti sa fii bun si monstru,inger si asasin,in acelasi timp. Puritatea e compatibila cu instinctele cele mai inspaimantatoare.Feriti-va de cei care au fost cat pe ce sa fie sfinti!

Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when I am with those girls, or little Charlie, I can be as good as gold, and so tame that that baby can lead me; I do believe evil qualities are more catching than measles.

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

If the God of goodness and indulgence who hovers over the worlds does not make a second washing of the human race, it is doubtless because so little success attended the first.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Everything in life has some good in it And when something awful happens, the goodness stands our even more- it's sad, but that's the truth.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it

I thought that being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was, in other words, and it was not until this project failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

People know when their gifts are being wasted, and this knowledge can eat away at the soul like a cancer. Call me a romantic, but I think most people want to be good for something.

if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.

I don't know why, but I felt shy and out of place in there with the noise and energy bouncing around and sheer goodness clinging to the walls of that house.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

The good, the true, and the beautiful, are three faces of the same ideal of perfection, the Infinite.

Thus there opens out to man a magnificent prospect of advance in the acquisition of truth, beauty and goodness; for if these are three aspects of the Ideal, three indefinite realities never to be attained in their entirety, because by their nature they are infinite, the progress of man in science, art and virtue is without possible limit.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.