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.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?

We are not troubled when something is good; only when it is bad. This is because goodness is natural. In our evil aberration, we are worried and alarmed when we slide into wrong or pain...

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

When your health is taken away, money can do little or nothing but when your breath is taken away, money means absolutely nothing

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

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...

Life isn’t all grand, but it isn’t all miserable either. There’s both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what’s beautiful? Concentrate on the good.

What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product’s novelty, fun factor or sheer stupidity. Whatever the case, just remember there’s always room on the market...

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

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good? Think of that young librarian, Sophie, who made certain you escaped. Think of S.Q., who risked my brother’s...

Miss B. says, “It’s a mama’s faith what keeps her children right. I’m not talkin’ ’bout the churchgoin’ kind, neither. Miss Mabel’s got faith in goodness. Tell me you can’t help but believe in it...

Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.

But the scent of the good is blown against the wind: A good man perfumes all directions.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

The Master said, “I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or onewho hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteemnothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would...

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

When we maintain a conscious connection with Gratitude, our presence will naturally radiate a certain beauty and undisturbed, inner tranquillity. Such individuals glow. All such individuals look beautiful and seem irresistible to those who value...

In the morning when I wake up, my first thoughts are on God. I am always thankful for safe sleep and the grace to wake up to see the light of a new day.

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...

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the...

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” – The...

Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who’s involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

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...