Quotes About Goodness

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still have that there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science has given him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government, through dangers and distortions and failures, is the American cause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in the eventual goodness of man

Beauty speaks of heaven to come, when all shall be beautiful. It haunts us with eternity. Beauty says, There is a glory calling to you. And if there is a glory, there is a source of glory. What great goodness could have possibly created this? What generosity gave us this to behold? Beauty draws us to God.

We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.

beauty reassures. This is especially important to our search here for the grace beauty offers our life with God. We need reassuring. Beauty reassures us that goodness is still real in the world, more real than harm or scarcity or evil. Beauty reassures us of abundance, especially that God is absolutely abundant in goodness and in life. Beauty reassures us there is plenty of life to be had. I believe beauty reassures us that the end of this Story is wonderful.

Pause when you are offered beauty and make the conscious decision, I receive this grace. We open our clenched soul to let it in. To find God in it. I will often pray, Thank you for this beauty. I receive it into my soul. And with it I receive you, in it, by it, through it—your love, your goodness, your life.

Beauty is one of the richest graces God has provided to heal our souls and absorb his goodness.

Si hubiera pensado que eso era todo, que era mi corazón, me habría desanimado. Saber que mi corazón es bueno me permitió bloquear aquello en el acto.

Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough" (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast

We simply start saying, "I love you" as we turn our attention toward him for a moment or two. As I do so I find it helpful to recall some reason I love God: his goodness, the beauty of the world (ninety thousand caribou stacked up for a river crossing), a kindness I recently received. "God is the creator of everything I love." Just repeat that to yourself, "God is the creator of everything I love.

In 'The Allure of Hope,' Jan says, Eve was convinced that God was withholding something from her. Not even the extravagance of Eden could convince her that God's heart is good.

Orang yang dilimpahi banyak karunia, dituntut untuk berbuat banyak kebaikan.

Asta a fost tragedia. Nu c? un om a avut curajul de a fi tic?los, dar c? milioane de oameni nu au avut curajul de a fi buni.

you ought to be good even if you did not believe that you would burn in torment forever if you were bad;

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

What but faith in the goodness and uniqueness of its essential principles could unite and sustain a country as diverse as America? What but faith could have enabled the country to survive the trials of the Revolution, the chaos and grief of a civil war—

The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying.

he thinks there are only three important things in life: 'The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Find the good, and praise it.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Godliness is the root of cleanliness.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!