Goodness Quotes

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!