Quotes About Goodness

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

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

The most talented people are always the nicest.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them." — Swami Vivekananda

Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

His brother and sister were the dearest people, but dreadfully good; they thought everything wrong. - William Price describing Fanny and Edmund to Georgiana Darcy

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime of homes. [p. 58]

Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht

The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.