Quotes About Goodness

For goodness that is beyond virtue, and hence beyond temptation, ignorant of the argumentative reasoning by which man fends off temptations and, by this very process, comes to know the ways, of wickedness, is also incapable of learning the arts of persuading and arguing.

In the simplicity of everyday life one rule reigns supreme: Each good action, even for a 'bad cause,' adds some real goodness to the world; each bad action even for the most beautiful of all ideals makes our common world a little worse.

In the mountains one involuntarily hears the query: Where shall I send you? And the answer, Send me to serve the beautiful and good!

It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

I always work towards being a good human.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!

Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.