Quotes About Goodness

no speech of admonition can be so fine that it will all at once make those who hear it good men if they are not good already; it would surely not make archers good if they had not had previous practice in shooting; neither would it make lancers good, nor horsemen; it cannot even make men able to endure bodily labour, unless they have been trained to it before.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. Tak ada kemuliaan tanpa kebajikan.

people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

No greatness without goodness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

I followed Him for His wisdom. But served Him for His goodness.

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace. I

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

Seorang pahlawan yang hanya mau menjalankan kebaikan tidak pernah kalah untuk selama-lamanya.

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

nel pessimista si accordano una bontà inefficace e una cattiveria inappagata

Hij is zacht, goed, subliem, rechtvaardig. Maar wie herkent zich in die mengeling die ruikt als naar transcendentie verbannen rozenwater? Een wezen zonder valsheid mist diepgang en mysterie; het verbergt niets. Alleen onzuiverheid is een kenteken van realiteit.[...] Omdat hij overloopt van leven, heeft de Duivel geen altaar: de mens herkent zich te veel in hem om hem te aanbidden.

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed, but she sometimes is.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Ah how much easier to to bear and understand pain than that promise of spring's frigid and liquid joy. And with such modesty she was awaiting it: the poignancy of goodness.

Because the best phrase and always still the youngest, was: goodness makes me want to be sick. Goodness was lukewarm and light. It smelled of raw meat kept for too long. Without entirely rotting in spite of everything. It was freshened up from time to time, seasoned a little, enough to keep it a piece of lukewarm, quiet meat.

And now I was starting to let it touch me. In truth I had fought all my life against the profound desire to let myself be touched—and I had fought because I couldn't allow myself the death of what I called my goodness; the death of human goodness. But now I no longer wanted to fight it. There had to be a goodness so other that it wouldn't resemble goodness. I no longer wanted to fight.

Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body.