Quotes About Goodness

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Quien pretende ser bueno en todo momento, está destinado a la perdición en medio del enorme número de quienes no lo son".

If people were rational and morally superior, the world would be suffused with goodness and peace. We know, however, the reality, and so some people, perhaps all of us, are merely deceiving ourselves.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us. Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike but man permitted to be man.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Kimse bilerek kötülüÄŸü seçmez. Onu yaln?zca, arad??? iyilik ve mutlulukla kar??t?r?r.

The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

Seiner größten Hingabe an die Wissenschaft war es niemals gelungen, ihn vergessen zu machen, daß die Schönheit und Güte der Menschen von dem kommen, was sie glauben, und nicht von dem, was sie wissen.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

Influence other people for good.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth