Quotes About Goodness

POLUS: What! and does all happiness consist in this? SOCRATES: Yes, indeed, Polus, that is my doctrine; the men and women who are gentle and good are also happy, as I maintain, and the unjust and evil are miserable.

The good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible.

Una de las mejores frases que ha sido atribuida a Pítaco, y que más han alabado los sabios, es justamente esta: es difícil ser virtuoso.

Si es cierto que lo agradable es bueno, no es posible que un hombre, sabiendo que puede hacer cosas mejores que las que hace, y conociendo que puede hacerlas, haga sin embargo las malas y deje las buenas, estando en su voluntad el poder escoger. Ser inferior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que estar en la ignorancia; y ser superior a sí mismo no es otra cosa que poseer la ciencia.

Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Bir insan tanr?lar?n varl???na hiç inanmasa da, eÄŸer ayn? zamanda dürüst bir mizac? varsa, böyle kiÅŸiler insanlardaki kötülükten nefret eder; yanl??l?klara kar?? olan nefretleri, onlar? yanl?? iÅŸler yapmaktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r; haks?zl?ktan kaç?n?rlar ve namuslu yaÅŸarlar

Öyleyse dostum, insanlara yap?lan kötülük onlar? doÄŸruluktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r

he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving.

The glory our God receives, and will eternally receive, from having saved our souls doesn't come from all the good things we do for Him. His glory comes from creating people of purity and spiritual passion who once did things like that. Like we've done. Like you've done. Like I've done.

But none of us can claim an innate spiritual advantage. In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me, the poor creature said, for I am too cold to live. The farmer took the viper and put it inside of his shirt, and the viper began to warm itself and come alive again. But upon coming alive, it bit the farmer most wretchedly, and as the farmer died, he asked the viper, but why? Why when I was so trusting of you? Because I am a viper, the snake replied. And one cannot expect kindness from evil.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

All will be well, if we do what is right

Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. —This Momentous Day, H.R. White

I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they had warmed me all my life.

The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.

She could remain an optimist because she understood that the world was made exclusively for the innocent. Rooms to house the wicked weren't included in the original architecture. Eventually, the world would be remodeled to restore it to its original purpose.

However, as there is no end to the beauty that some can create, so there also is no end to the horrors that others

She clung to life, not for herself, but for Julia's sake. It hurt her to know Ruth was in pain. Why did those who were good always have to suffer?

I fear Monica's steeped in the juices of her own self-righteousness. She struggles to be good under her own power and ignores all the help made available to her through faith.

Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.

One cannot be a good person without gratitude, and one cannot be a happy person without gratitude. This provides a vital link between goodness and happiness.