Quotes About Goodness

goodness surrounds us in the manifestation of all of nature but it also flows through us on a regular basis; it is Spirit at work in and through us.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

If she wasn't pretty enough for them, fine, because they weren't worth her time anyway. They didn't make her happy. None of them were good people. None of them were nice.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Sana, sende gördükleri iyi ÅŸeyler yüzünden zarar vermek, seni incitmek isteyen insanlar da olacakt?r.

You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others—all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.

Durante siglos la batalla de la moralidad fue librada entre quienes proclamaban que la vida pertenece a Dios y quienes decían que pertenece al prójimo, entre quienes predicaban que la bondad es el autosacrificio en favor de unos fantasmas celestes y quienes predicaban que el bien es el auto-sacrificio en favor de los incompetentes de la tierra. Pero nadie vino a decir que vuestra vida os pertenece y que el bien reside en vivirla.

Nada puede hacer que sea moral destruir a los mejores. Uno no puede ser castigado por ser bueno.

Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?

Mais la magie vient du pouvoir du bien, de cette force qui nous dit que nous n'avons pas besoin de nous soumettre aux limites et restrictions que nous impose M. destin, comme l'appelle Nabokov.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Churches won't work with you, though, just out of the goodness of their hearts. They'll talk a good game-a sermon on Sunday, maybe, or a special offering for the homeless. But if push comes to show, they won't really move unless you can show them how it'll help them pay their heating bill.

nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

God was good. Her mother had told her that God was Goodness. That He was understanding and forgiving. Emma did not believe in a wrathful God, the God of retribution and revenge that the Methodist minister warned about in his sermons on Sundays. Her mother had said God was Inconceivable Love

Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if they are happy they will also be good...

work of supererogation

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.