Quotes About Goodness

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

All men are born good.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

What makes a good man?

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

I tell you this: Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God's World. Only in the world of man is goodness limited. In My World, goodness is endless.

Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul.

I do not show My goodness by creating only what you call perfection all around you. I do not demonstrate My love by not allowing you to demonstrate yours.

In that realm you will know at last the Good News: that your "devil" does not exist, that you are who you always thought you were—goodness and love. Your idea that you might be something else has come from an insane outer world, causing you to act insanely. An outer world of judgment and condemnation. Others have judged you, and from their judgments you have judged yourself.

In truth, there is nothing evil, only objective phenomena and experience.