Quotes About Goodness

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.

Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad people ultimately harm only themselves: nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death

Doing good is a matter of looking after the part of yourself which matters most, namely your soul

He, however, lost nothing by his kindness

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

War never slays a bad man in its course,But the good always!

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said," Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

The abundant life begins from within and then moves outward to other individuals. If there is richness and righteousness in us, then we can make a difference in the lives of others, just as key individuals have influenced the lives of each of us for good and made us richer than we otherwise would have been.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.)

Into this blind clay, You have infused awareness. Everything, everywhere which You have given is good

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

The wicked have told me of delights, but not such as Thy law, O Lord.

There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.

Therefore, to obtain blessedness, we need not quit every kind of body, but only the corruptible, cumbersome, painful, dying,—not such bodies as the goodness of God contrived for the first man, but such only as man's sin entailed.

And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they were incorruptible, if not good at all, there were nothing in them to be corrupted. For corruption injures, but unless it diminished goodness, it could not injure.

For behold, Thou lovest the truth, and he that doth it, cometh to the light.

O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having finished their courses, is to pass away, for in them there was morning and evening.