Quotes About Goodness

New Age says you get into heaven by 'being a good person'; Christianity says it's not your works that save you --- it's God's grace through your faith in the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus (who was the only sinless and truly good person to walk the earth). God's love doesn't give us a license to do whatever we please.

I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheist, and have been moved, or because they have wanted to be fair all their lives, but have never stepped in a church, from those who have heard God's words in church or read His words in the Bible and become convinced by them.

evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.

But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catching. Mrs. Brockington was further on the road Ellen wanted to travel, and because Mrs. Brockington had got there, Ellen felt she might get there too.

Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing. Then,

T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good'.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

and speak good to people [i.e. enjoin righteousness and forbid evil,

Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Soli Deo Gloria' should be ascribed to every good work.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.