Quotes About Goodness

This game is based on good values more than anything else.

The first and most important thing a man should keep away from is not doing harm of any kind knowingly to anyone, at any time.

I feel we children learn all the good things from our mothers. They are simply the best.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?

Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

in 1788, he had become infatuated by the American republic and its spirit of "simplicity, goodness, and that dignity of man which is the possession of those who realize their liberty and who see in their fellow men only brothers and equals." Brissot had determined to bring the American ideals to Europe.

the thing that differentiates Christianity from other faiths is that it is all about responding to what Christ has already done for us, not about what we can do to be good enough to get a thumb's-up from God.

A child. New life. Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, racism, insult, hurt, self-loathing, abandonment. Error-free. All goodness. Minus wrath. So they believe.

A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

And then, I was good to you, Sula, why don't that matter?...... How you know? Sula asked.... About who was good. How you know it was you?

When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back.

Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world

L'amore non è mai migliore di chi ama. I malvagi amano con malvagità, i violenti con violenza, i deboli con debolezza e gli stupidi in modo stupido, ma l'amore di un uomo libero non è mai sicuro. on c'è dono per la persona amata. Solo chi ama possiede il suo dono d'amore. Chi è amato viene reciso, neutralizzato, congelato nello sguardo dell'occhio interiore di chi ama.

We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

Good stretched her pleasure.

since goodness is not only better and good for you, but it is also more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite. Evil really is boring. Sensational, perhaps, but not interesting. A low-level activity that needs masses or singularity or screams or screeching headlines to even get attention for itself, while goodness needs nothing.

That is not the way it should be. Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.

Some to whom evil is done resolve never to inflict such pain on anyone and become very good indeed.

The trouble with the world is that you forget that there are good people in it.

God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.