Quotes About Goodness

Mi abuelo es un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si yo seré un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si habrá hombres de bien en mi generación.

Beauty is a symbol of goodness; the admiration we feel for it is a symbol of the reverence inspired by the moral law.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

I do not much care for childhood; it is a state of terrible vulnerability. It is therefore unnatural and incompatible with human life. Everyone will cut you, strike you, cheat you. Everyone will offer you suffering when goodness should reign. And because children can do nothing for themselves, they need good advocates, good parents. But a good parent is as rare as snow in summer.

by acknowledging that you want to feel good, and that you want to have a life experience that is in harmony with what is good. And if you start there

The idea of a God we infer from our experimental dependence on something superior to ourselves in wisdom, power and goodness, which we call God; our senses discover to us the works of God which we call nature, and which is a manifest demonstration of his invisible essence. Thus it is from the works of nature that we deduce the knowledge of a God, and not because we have, or can have any immediate knowledge of, or revelation from him.

To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas.

Who would imagine that the Deity conducts his providence similar to the detestable despots of this world? Oh horrible? most horrible impeachment of Divine Goodness!

'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!

The function of religion is not to make people feel good but to make them good. Love? Yes, God loves us. But his love is passionate and seeks faithful, committed love in return. God does not want tame pets to fondle and feed; he wants mature, free people who will respond to him in authentic individuality.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Ezar25e is a great person.

Al amanecer recorría el camino yermo hasta el trabajo notando la llegada del invierno y sumida en la desesperación. ¿Qué valor tenía la vida? ¿Qué importaba que una persona fuera buena o mala? ¿Qué consuelo podía hallarse en "Dios"?

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.