Goodness Quotes

Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

How good life is when one does something good and just!

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.