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.

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

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that ‘good’ is an infinitely recursive term – it can’t be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it’s better than bad, though why...

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn’t turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

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

I just want to tell you: the only good thing in these days is that I still believe there’s something good behind all these things. I don’t know what that good thing is but the...

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…

If your attitudes are good, then your world will be better.

I think that a lot of the time, people are generous towards those whom they pity; but only find fault in those whom they see as better than themselves. There is a fake kind of...

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so...

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must...

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

People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

Conquer evil with good deeds.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Our goodness makes us great.

God wants to rescue us, not destroy us. You don’t have to be afraid of being happy, thinking that he wants to take that happiness away from you That’s not who he is.” “How can...

In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn’t spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no...

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

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.

Thank goodness [Moss] is gone so we can do different things to them now. We can put eight guys in the box now. We used to just play cover-2 pretty much the whole game and...

Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you’ve taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now....

About 83.3% of the word BRIGHT consists of the word RIGHT, so RIGHT living guarantees a BRIGHT future

Oh my goodness, we’ve heard such horribly accented Spanish in the past six months, I can’t tell you. You kind of wince and you say, ‘OK, let’s get through the Spanish,’ because you know the...

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

We are in the world to support one another.

Whoever is in charge of such things had been sparing with his blessings on the moment Benno was born. He had neither looks nor wit nor skill. He was not large or strong, he could...

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

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...

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...

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...