Quotes About Goodness

In work and in life, no matter how smart, talented, and beautiful you are, you also have to be a good person.

Life should be good - Life should be very, very good - and the only duty we have to the dead is to make it good for ourselves and other people.

?lovek si musí teda sám pre seba ur?i?, ktoré najvyššie dobro je jeho š?astím. musí si zvoli? svoje š?astie, alebo teda najvyššie dobro, a osud jeho mravného života závisí na tom, ?i jeho vo?ba je alebo nie je v zhode s tým, ?o v takom prípade požaduje pravda

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again; and in him, too, one more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility towards human life; towards the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of error, and of God.

He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Quizás también sin antiguo daño, sin íntimo terror, no haya conocimiento ni bondad tampoco.. Del poema "Investiga la ciencia del dolor

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

God often acts contrary to how we think a good God should act. The answer we think we need seems so logical and clear to our way of thinking, yet God does not provide it. That is where faith comes in. Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

It's the highest form of praise," Abba had said, "to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.

The Dalai Lama teaches that the self lies somewhere beyond our bodies and our minds. He preaches that human nature is essentially good. Only the affection of a mother allows a child to survive. Only the baby's affection for his mother drives him to feed from her breast. This shows, the Dalai Lama explains, that we are born into compassion and sustained by it. So our essential nature is compassionate.

We must speak with honor in the midst of being dishonored. We must speak with peace in the midst of being threatened. We must speak of good things in the midst of a bad situation. We must be obedient to, trust, and believe God and let Him boss around our contrary feelings.

When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God's design. And sin absolutely breaks God's heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.

In the meantime, we must hold fast to the truth of who God is and His unchanging nature: God is good. His plans are good. His requirements are good. His salvation is good. His grace is good. His forgiveness is good. His restoration is good.

If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.

Though we may get our hearts broken from the effects of sin in this in-between time, God's goodness will eventually set the world right.

God, I want Your truth to be the loudest voice in my life. Correct me. Comfort me. Come closer still. And I will trust. God, You are good at being God.

His goodness has been apparent since creation. When He formed and shaped and painted and sculpted this world and its creatures into being, His goodness seeped in with every thought and touch. "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31).