Quotes About Goodness

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

She was a hippie. I could tell, even dressed in a red prisoner jumpsuit. She had some haphazard braids in her hair, and that dopey trusting look in her eyes, like she was seeing the goodness of your soul at a glance.

Is goodness just for Sundays and is love just for Christmas? Must the living fragrance of human love be packed away with the tree ornaments once Christmas day is past?

Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves. What we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. —From the movie Chocolat

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.

Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.

Grace is goodness.

Grace is as good as gold.

Goodness is grace.

We can good deed by God's grace.

Do not be devilish.

Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.

You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you.

Blessed is he who keeps his hands from doing evil.

CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN

What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line.

Whoever fear God, shall depart from evil.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.