Quotes About Goodness

Handsome is that handsome does.

Good, but not religious-good.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

God loveth the clean.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.