Quotes About Goodness

This also is for good. Everything that the Merciful One does, He does for good. If this is good in His eyes, how much more so in mine. Blessed is God (Baruch HaShem). Praise God. God-willing. Such was God's will. With God's help. May this [affliction] be an atonement for me.

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greetings cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship...Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

I must tell you—because you mightn't come back, she whispered. You must know what—what I think of your goodness—of you. Always I've been tongue-tied. I seemed not to be grateful. It was deep in my heart. Even now—if I were other than I am—I couldn't tell you. But I'm nothing—only a rustler's girl—nameless—infamous. You've saved me—

But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.

Lord I thank you for creating the world beautiful and various and for allowing me in Your fathomless goodness to visit places which were not the sites of my daily torments

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

Güte ist nicht ohne Klippen: man schreibt sie dem Charakter zu und erkennt die stille Bemühung einer schönen Seele nur selten an. Die Bösen dagegen belohnt man für das Böse, das sie nicht tun.

Le malheur est une espèce de talisman dont la vertu consiste à corroborer notre constitution primitive : il augmente la défiance et la méchanceté chez certains hommes, comme il accroît la bonté de ceux qui ont un cœur excellent.

Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to

The pure in life and free from sin.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

Acesta este infernul: eternitatea r?ut??ii, eternitatea erorii, imposibilitatea binelui, imposibilitatea r?scump?r?rii.

The truth was never easy, and it was never simple, and it had a way of breaking your heart. Thus men chose its imitation whenever possible and made the world fit the shape that suited them best. Smith believed man created God and Truth both in his own image, and he attached no blame to that. He had long ago decided that most people got along as best they could, trying to be brave, trying to be good, trying to subdue the terrors of life with whatever expectations lay easiest to hand.

You will find what you look for in people and in the world. If you are loving, you will find love. If you seek beauty, you will see beauty. If you pursue goodness, you will receive goodness. What you are inside will attract the same from outside. When you love, love comes to you. When you hate, hate finds you.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?