Quotes About Goodness

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

Times are bad, God is good.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.