Quotes About Goodness

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Do one good deed everyday and the world will be a better place

When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases.

Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?

We don't need to be perfect to do good deeds in the world, but we need to be sincere in our efforts.

When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.

If you are able to show goodness to yourself, your family, friends, and maybe to some in your community, you are doing better than most. In fact, it can be harder to show goodness to those who stand close to you than to those who are in faraway places. If more people tended to their own gardens, all of society would flourish as a result.

Man should be better than monsters. Ah, but who are the monsters?

Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do with it, but they all fall short.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

In On the Incarnation Athanaseus explicitly states that creation is good, and that it is a path to lead us to God. He argues against those who assume creation is evil. And he brings forth the insight that by participating personally in His creation, God has elevated the status of nature. By implication, he maintains that the honor and duty of one who knows and loves God is to know and love His creation.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

Why not everybody make friend, have fun, make help, be good?

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If human power in history—among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals—is self-interested power, then "the revelation of divine goodness in history" must be weak and not strong.

Being abused causes pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, and misery can only break what goodness remains.

I believe that people are more good than bad. But at the end of the day, if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, the world gets a little better each day

It might not mean nothing to you. But you're the reason someone feels loved and believes in the good in people.