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Quotes About Goodness

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.
~ Griffin Jay
Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
~ Julius Charles Hare
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.
~ Peace Pilgrim
We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.
~ Peace Pilgrim
This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.
~ Rachel Holmes
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!
~ Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
~ William Penn
Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
~ Wayne Dyer
Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good.
~ Avina Celeste
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
~ John of the Cross
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
~ Arthur W. Pink
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
~ Voltaire
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
~ John Flavel
The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
~ Julian of Norwich
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.
~ Pope Francis
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
~ James MacDonald
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
~ Julian of Norwich
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
~ Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
~ Charlotte Lennox