Goodness Quotes

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

How near to good is what is fair!

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.