Goodness Quotes
The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.
I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.
They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be.
Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
All our good deeds cannot save us.We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.
When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.
Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace.
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it
I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.
Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy
Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!
When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)
In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.
Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.
Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.
...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.
...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.
for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.
It's beautiful when you realise how kind, tender, warm and big-hearted a person is that has suffered too much for their own good.
I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.
To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas.
Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.
Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.
REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.
