Goodness Quotes

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

God's glory is His goodness.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.

My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.