Quotes About Goodness

If you have love you will do all things well.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Love is the most powerful weapon in the world for good. I really believe that.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

The positive force of love can create anything good, increase good things and change anything negative in your life.

I love the idea of rectitude.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

God is love so all God does is loving.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet...if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.

It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.

Hating life, despising life—even for the genuine pain that life inflicts—merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse. There is no genuine protest in that. There is no goodness in that, only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil. People who come to that kind of thinking are one step from total mayhem.

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

Happy" is by no means synonymous with "good.

the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

But a villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

Naive, harmless people usually guide their perceptions and actions with a few simple axioms: people are basically good; no one really wants to hurt anyone else; the threat (and, certainly, the use) of force, physical or otherwise, is wrong. These axioms collapse, or worse, in the presence of individuals who are genuinely malevolent

no se trata en absoluto de la voluntad de creer en cosas que sabes perfectamente que son falsas. Eso sería ignorancia o ceguera voluntaria. Se trata, por el contrario, de darse cuenta de que las irracionalidades trágicas de la vida tienen que compensarse con un compromiso igualmente irracional con la bondad esencial del Ser.

What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best?