Quotes About Goodness

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Love me...I am not evil.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

Think good for yourself, good will follow you.when you think good for others, happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

Love is the highest moral standard.

É tudo mentira, não passam de mentiras! Meu Deus, que comoção vai ser o Dia do Juízo Final, quando eles vierem juntos, de mortalha, tentando arrastar as lápides para provar como foram bons.

No podemos elegir cuándo llegan a nuestras vidas ciertas personas. El momento no siempre es el más oportuno, pero cuando algo es bueno, es bueno.

To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighbor means recognizing that there are ultimately no strangers. . . . Everybody is my neighbor! . . . Everybody is my brother! . . . There are no isolated monads wounded on the other side of the street! . . . We're all connected.

Yet "to love" can also mean "to will goodness to something." In this sense it can be fittingly ascribed to God since he freely does this insofar as he brings about the existence of anything.

You have to be brave before you can be good.

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now.

The important question regarding spirituality is not which God you follow but are you true to your soul? Are you living a spiritual life? Are you a kind person here on earth, getting joy from your existence, causing no harm, and doing good to others?

The King, full of mercy and goodness, very far from chastising me, embraces me with love, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the key of His treasures; He converses and delights Himself with me incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite. It is thus I consider myself from time to time in His holy presence.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

there's goodness and purpose and reason out there. Believe it, embrace it, trust it. Life will always be hard, but if we do our best, if we persist, we can make a difference---and good will win out over evil, love will conquer hate...

We all have a tendency to succumb to a state of despair about the destructiveness and shortsightedness of the human species. I've certainly done my share (and on grounds I still consider well-based). But one of the discoveries of my illness is the extraordinary community of goodness to which people in my situation owe their lives.

When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!