Goodness Quotes - Page 3

Now I realize that everything you need for measuring a person can be found in the nature of what he chooses to hide from everyone else. That's all you need to know to gauge his goodness.

When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good.

Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind.

Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.

Everything good is good because of the love it contains.

In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

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

Now, the atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see us through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

People do not have to be dreary to be good.

Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world.

To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

If we seek God first, we shall all other goodness.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt

Give up good to welcome great.

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

Love's weaknesses are better than hate's strengths.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.

If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.

Your inner light is your brightest light.

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over.

The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.

Great life, great deeds.

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.

Never wish the death of anyone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

It is better to act right than seek right.

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.