Quotes About Goodness

There is goodness in many hearts. In most hearts. In some hearts. I love peanuts.

Like God in the Bible, they looked at what they had made and found it very good

Zan and I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world. But you know, you still got to work at it.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation. All the good we achieve is to be attributed to God rather than to ourselves. What makes our lives good is not anything we are ourselves but the presence within us of what we are not, a divine presence never ours by right because never ours by nature. All the glory for the good we exhibit in our lives should therefore be reserved for God.

We are good not in virtue of what we are but in virtue of what we are not, like darkness lit up by a light that enters into it from without. We are not light in ourselves but in virtue of having within us what is light in itself.

All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered. Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey... a woman can be just as evil as a man.

All authentic academic research is based on the simultaneous pursuit of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good—if any is pursued separately, imbalance ensues.

All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. 'All men make mistakes,' said the ancient Greek Sophocles. 'But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.

Abbot Peter had come in to show him the way. Unarmed and defenseless, the abbot had instantly stopped the bloodshed, with nothing but the authority of his Church and the force of his goodness. That scene had inspired Philip all his life.

Los miembros de esta generación tendremos que lamentarnos no solo por las palabras y los actos odiosos de las malas personas, sino por los clamorosos silencios de las buenas —

In other words, this world is not a sin; forgetting that "this world" is the radiance and Goodness of Spirit—there is the sin.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Doing the right thing has power.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

There is explosive power in virtue.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

Jesus' Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God's mercy.