Quotes About Goodness

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God.

The person who does a truly good deed does not remember it as long as does the person for whom it is done. And this is how it ought to be. A truly good deed, by definition, is not done with the expectation of instant return ("I scratched your back, now you scratch mine!").

Y sin embargo al padre Tomasino le debo uno de mis momentos más espléndidos, efímero momento en que creí en la bondad del hombre, que es un perverso animal.

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love."1

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love.

Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.