Quotes About Goodness

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Kindness is our religion.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

Whoever knows God, depart from evil.

Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.

Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person.

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."