Goodness Quotes - Page 4

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges – become the messenger of equality – become the prophet of goodness.

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

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

Nothing is purely evil.

Positive life, positive actions.

Keep the good memories and throw out the bad ones

We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family.

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

It is nice to be important, but it is very important for you to be nice to people

I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.

As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot!

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

Every time we look at the clock, we must learn to feel a sense of urgency. We must learn to realize that “now” is happening and will very soon be gone. We must look at the digits on the display and be overcome with an urge to do something before those digits change. Before “now” slips through our fingers. We must look at the ink on the calendar and see an immediate opportunity to do something wonderful, incredible, or beautiful.It’s that simple. We need to change our thinking from “when the number changes” to “before the number changes”.

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.

Before you ask God to bless you, give Him a reason to.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word for humanity's sake?

More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.

Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.

What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

People should avoid hatred at all costs, because not only does it affect the hater’s health; it also prevents them from enjoying the goodness of love.

A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.

If Captain Jean-Luc Picard asked you to serve him aboard the starship Enterprise, you'd likely be happy to. You would recognise him as a great leader and a good man, and so you wouldn't have any problem following his orders. This is basically the relationship God wants with us - not slaves, not pets, not possessions, we would be co-workers and friends.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

Learn, Teach, Love, Experience and Grow. That's what I know about this life we live.

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still havethat there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science hasgiven him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government,through dangers and distortions and failures, is the Americancause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in theeventual goodness of man

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was the right man for the job.Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could not longer see himself

Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.

When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.

Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold, so hard?"A smile flickered on John’s face, one that was neither happy nor sad. "What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it?

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

You will find two kinds of people in the world. Some say that there are the bad and the good. But it isn’t like that. Since what is good for one may be bad for another. No, that doesn’t work. You have to depend on your intuition.“There are those who make you feel inside as if you are drinking a good, warm soup – even if you are hungry and the two of you have nothing to eat. In spite of that they nourish you.“And then there are those who cause you to freeze inside, even if you are sitting before a roaring fire and have eaten your fill. Those you should keep away from. They are not good for you, even though others might say that they are good people…

But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving.

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods.

A step towards love is a mile towards joy.

...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed.

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.

All our good deeds cannot save us.We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.