Quotes About Goodness

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.