Quotes About Goodness

Music, laughter, dancing (even a party for one), knitting, cooking—finding what naturally soothes you not only regulates your heart and mind, it helps you stay open to the goodness in you and in the world.

You Never Needed GOD to simply Do GOOD For Other People

Kindness and remembrance. — A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

The way I see it, we ate the apple and Adam, Eve, the rebel Jesus in all his glory and Satan are all part of God's plan to make men and women out of us, to give us the precious gifts of earth, dirt, sweat, blood, sex, sin, goodness, freedom, captivity, love, fear, life and death . . . our humanity and a world of our own.

Discipline is liberty, compassion is strength, goodness is courage

God says that despite knowing that sin makes you impure before him, and that to cleanse you he would have to sacrifice his Son, and to equip you he would have to provide his Spirit, nonetheless it gives him pleasure to reveal to you the mystery of Jesus. When there was no goodness or ability in us, God loved us and enabled us to know his love. This too is a precious mystery that even a child can know.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

Because I am united to Christ, God's love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me more because I do better. He will not love me less because I stumble. His love is based not on my behavior but on my union with his Son – a union built on trust in his grace, not my goodness.

Whether God chooses the ordinary path of rewarding our goodness with observable blessing, or the extraordinary path of blessing our obedience with trials that will strengthen our character and stretch our faith, his love is never lacking (Heb. 12:6-11).

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

By showing us what moves God, the Bible also shows what should motivate our goodness. Jesus commends the one leper who returns to give him thanks. The commendation teaches us not only the importance of honoring God but also that such honor should not spring primarily from a desire for personal gain but rather from the delight of selfless gratitude.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

If there is one righteous person the rain falls for his sake.

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

The pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed? These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine.

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Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you'll be good.

Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you'll be good.3

My every impulse bends to what is right

We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.

The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one's understanding of the ultimate nature of things.