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Goodness Quotes

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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.
Peter Tosh

'I am respectable. I live honourably. I think positively. I don't have to feel joyous to be righteous, I bring my virtue wherever I go.'
Authors on Goodness Quotes: Mehmet Murat Ildan Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ralph Waldo Emerson Friedrich Nietzsche Seneca the Younger Julian of Norwich Sakyong Mipham Cassandra Clare Pope Francis Henry Ward Beecher Mahatma Gandhi Henry David Thoreau Desmond Tutu Laozi Dante Alighieri Oprah Winfrey C. S. Lewis Aiden Wilson Tozer Michel de Montaigne Leo Tolstoy Confucius John McCain Matthew Henry Thomas Carlyle Matt Chandler William Shakespeare Asghar Ali Engineer Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel Swedenborg Philip Sidney Gilbert K. Chesterton John Milton Victor Hugo
2.
Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
Mata Amritanandamayi

Adopt the attitude of a honeybee, collecting only sweetness wherever you venture. Seek out the benevolence inherent in all individuals.
3.
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
Philippe Starck

We must substitute grace, which is an aesthetic notion, with morality, which is a humanistic ideal.
4.
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
Matt Chandler

Belief does not mean the suppression of trepidation. It means confronting trepidation and putting faith in God's benevolence surpasses all else.
5.
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?
Daniel Berrigan

6.
God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
William Tyndale

7.
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
Brennan Manning

8.
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.
Lou Holtz

9.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields

10.
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
Georg Brandes

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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.
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

12.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

13.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu

14.
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.
Desmond Tutu

15.
Taste goodness before you recommend it.
Chinmayananda Saraswati

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It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.
T. B. Joshua

17.
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.
Aldous Huxley

18.
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.
Athanasius of Alexandria

19.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
Maurice Maeterlinck

20.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
William Shakespeare

21.
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.
Thomas More

22.
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
Beth Moore

23.
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Bert Hellinger

24.
Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.
Xunzi

25.
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
Luther Campbell

26.
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
C. S. Lewis

27.
Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.
Saint Basil

28.
Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith

29.
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.
Anne Hathaway

30.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Friedrich Schiller

31.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xunzi

32.
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher

33.
Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

34.
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.
Saint Augustine

35.
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.
Mencius

36.
Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
William Wilberforce

37.
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
Oprah Winfrey

38.
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr

39.
We believe in the inherent goodness of man.
Steven Biko

40.
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

41.
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
Eric Gill

42.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne

43.
Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.
Joel Osteen

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

45.
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.
James Prescott Joule

46.
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Yasunari Kawabata

47.
Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

48.
When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.
Steve Farrar

49.
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Euripides

50.
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman