Quotes About Goodness

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.

Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.