Quotes About Goodness

I just want people to realize that it doesn't take much to be a good person. Simple things is all it takes.

I want to marry a good person, not his profession. If the person is good, the profession doesn't matter. I hold honesty, simplicity, and genuineness above everything.

The good alone die young.

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

Although I have these problems, I know that You, Lord, are greater than they are. You are my heavenly Father. You are a good God. In You is everything I need for my life, and I choose to exalt You above all.

If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God's truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.

Dear Lord, I thank You that You listen to my prayers and that You answer, not according to my own goodness, but according to Yours. Help me to not let anything discourage me from coming to You in prayer—especially not my own sense that I am undeserving of Your attention and blessing. I come entirely because You are full of grace and mercy.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

Your goodness will not be forgotten," I told him. "Not a single act of your love will be squandered. You've brought God's kingdom as you hoped—you've planted it in our hearts.

Your goodness will not be forgotten, I told him. Not a single act of your love will be squandered. You've brought God's kingdom as you hoped-you've planted it in our hearts.

You cannot repay evil with evil.

But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.

Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.

Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority consumption an astonishing array of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. Those who don't enjoy (in both senses) my pleasures have every right, from their side, to regard my consciousness as spoiled, corrupt, decadent. I, from my side, can't deny the immense richness of these pleasures, or my addiction to them.

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it.

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it.

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

I believe now that I was exposed too early to goodness and that I never recovered.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.