Quotes About Goodness

If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.

God is willing to suffer to get what He wants; evil is not.

Befriend good people, for their spirit will influence you.

God often allows the natural consequences of our poor choices to play out. The miracle is that he brings good out of our pain by using it to demonstrate his goodness and grace.

The Christian] does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. . . —C.S. Lewis

They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me." (Jeremiah 32:38–40)

When we filter everything through past hurts, rejections, and experiences, we find it impossible to believe God. We cannot believe He means what He says. We doubt His goodness and faithfulness since we judge Him by the standards set by man in our lives. But God is not a man! He cannot lie (Num. 23:19). His ways are not like ours, and His thoughts are not ours (Isa. 55:8–9).

There is nothing good for you outside of God's wisdom or Word, nothing at all.

Those who truly believe will exhibit a changed nature and no longer produce the fruit of an evil one.

For why? The Lord our God is good' His mercy is for ever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure.

Everybody is willing to praise the goodness of men publicly, but who is there who is as impressed with the goodness of God as he should be?

It is the glory of the next world that will never wear out, while the good things of this world will vanish.

These troubles and distresses you are experiencing in these waters are no indication that God has abandoned you. Rather, they are sent to test you to see whether or not you will recall the evidences of his past goodness and rely upon him in your present distresses.

Now, if a good man cannot do good things with that oneness and universalness of mind, as a wicked man doth sin with, then is his sin heavier to weigh him down to hell than is his righteousness to buoy him up to the heavens.

John Wesley: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

Charles Spurgeon: "God is too good to be unkind. He is too wise to be confused. If I cannot trace His hand, I can always trust His heart.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly just because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you're a vegetarian

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.

And if We make him taste a favor after distress has afflicted him, he will certainly say: The evils are gone away from me. Most surely he is exulting, boasting; Except those who are patient and do good, they shall have forgiveness and a great reward.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

You are the most amazing person I have ever met in all my life. I just wish that you be blessed so much that all who see you, learn that good people are always rewarded. Have a very Happy Birthday.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh