Goodness Quotes
I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.
Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.
Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.
Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.