Quotes About Goodness

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

I sought for love on the highway, For love unselfish and pure, And found it in good deeds blooming, Tho' often in haunts obscure.

Good men do the most harm.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

The distinctions drawn between men are commonly based on the outward appearance of goodness or badness, on the ground of moral beauty or moral deformity

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

The King of love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am His And He is mine forever.

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