Quotes About Goodness

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

There are men who make the world seem populated by good men, those who are intuitive, or have been taught.

Talking to Daniel is like watching the news. You come away thinking the world is ending. It distorts your view of reality, which is that every day, all over the world, people are doing good things for other people and those things are never made public.

Sometimes My blessings come to you in mysterious ways: through pain and trouble. At such times you can know My goodness only through your trust in Me. Understanding will fail you, but trust will keep you close to Me.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The LORD protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. —PSALM 116:5–7

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. LAMENTATIONS 3 : 22 – 26

Trust that I know what I'm doing—that I can bring good out of everything you encounter, everything you endure. Don't let your past or present suffering contaminate your view of the future. I am the Lord of your future, and I have good things in store for you.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, nuns haven't got anything else better to do, and none of them are ever going to be priests or become the Pope, because women aren't good enough for that), then something was very wrong. How could he have missed the bit about everyone being equal in the eyes of God?

This idea, that we are to live in a way that reflects who God is, fills the pages of the New Testament (see 1 John 4:7–12). God's love—seen in sun and rain—is showered on all humans, both "the evil and the good" or "the righteous and the unrighteous," which stands for the "observant" and "nonobservant.

Knowing God's love, knowing God's goodness, and learning to embrace those attributes of God prompt us to pray.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

Prayer doesn't change GOD. He is unchanging and unchangeable. But it does change us, making us more like Him, and thus more able to accept His will, whatever it may be. Prayer makes us radiate goodness.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

A good book appeals to what is best in us....

Thank you for not being fair with us. Thank you for being outrageously generous, immeasurably kind, and scandalously good.

War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.