Quotes About Goodness

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

Where there's music there can be no evil.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.