Quotes About Goodness

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.

Chesterton decía que el bien no consiste simplemente en abstenerse de hacer el mal, que el bien no puede ser una virtud meramente negativa y pasiva, que el bien debe ser algo que obra, algo perceptible por sus frutos, así como el blanco es un color y no una simple ausencia de color.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

Bill, the point is that right in the middle of this horror there's a creature called man who can see that it's horrible. So where do we come up with these notions like 'evil' and 'cruel' and 'unjust'? You can't say a line looks a little bit crooked unless you've got a notion of a line that's straight.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness," he brooded. "And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God." Merrin

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savor but themselves.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.