Goodness Quotes

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

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

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

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.

Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

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

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.