Quotes About Goodness

O du schwacher Gut gesinnter, aber schwacher Mensch! Wo da Not ist, denkt er, gibt es keine Güte!

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

What happened today was a terrible thing, but I believe with all my heart that the Good Lord is holdin' all of us in His arms. That man don't know who we are or where we live, and he ain't gonna find out. We all need to be careful in this world, but I promise you, for every bad person on this earth there's a hundred good ones.

We all need to be careful in this world, but I promise you, for every bad person on this earth there's a hundred good ones.

Compassion is the essence of self-esteem. When you have compassion for yourself, you understand and accept yourself the way you are. You tend to see yourself as basically good. If you make a mistake, you forgive yourself. You have reasonable expectations of yourself. You set attainable goals. Compassion is a skill. That means you can improve it if you already have it, or you can acquire it if you don't.

The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and I will dwell in the house of the lord forever.

Together we shall write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity, not division. Of light, not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

goodness is murdered, mediocrity thrives...

For the word of the Lord is right, and all His work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord" (Ps. 33:4–5). One of the definitions for this word full is "having no empty space." It's beautiful. The world has no empty spaces untouched by God's goodness. That being the case, no one has to look far to find this treasure. But one may have to look differently.

Freedom will only be experienced in the measure to which we see God as being good.

Character is the container for blessing.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Let's get this straight: God is good all of the time. The devil is bad all of the time. We do ourselves a tremendous service to remember the difference between the two.

Anchoring our souls in everything but His goodness is the ultimate waste of time. Moses

Believing that God is good is absolutely vital to becoming effective in the ministry of the gospel. Without that foundation, it's not possible to develop the clear focus and the strength of faith to pursue the breakthroughs that the earth aches for. The way we understand Him is the way we will present Him. How we see Him defines how we think and how we live.

The four cornerstones of thought in our biblical worldview are these: God is Good, Nothing is Impossible, The Blood of Jesus Paid for Everything, and Every Person is Significant.

It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.…