Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you...

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good – above all, that we are better than someone else – I think we may be sure that we are...

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

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters – even to the very belief in life.

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen...

before the number changes”.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take...

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.

A world of goodness surrounds you.

The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.

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.

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.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I...

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

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...

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

the apartment had been directly in the sight line of a Serb sniper across the river. Teta-Jozefina was a devout Catholic, but she somehow managed to believe in essential human goodness, despite all the abundant...

Goodness, real goodness, has it’s own sort of cruelty to it.

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.

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things,...

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!

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it’s covered by so much dirt that it’s a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person…

God’s being good does not somehow magically make all Christians good.

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

It’s ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

Beauty is reaching for you if you you will hold out your hand in good faith.

The public good must come before private interests.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life,” Asher said. “A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small,...

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right,...

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

I’m Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I’m volatile.

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

We want them to see their home planet,” Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then. “Oh, why must you make me look at unpleasant things when there are...

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. – I shall fear only God. – I shall not bear ill...

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

Be nice. Be good. Be happy. If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there’d be few problems left in the world to fret about.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

The beauty and goodness that one sees in others is always a reflection of that which is within oneself.

If you can’t please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.