This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward...

We are in this world not only for ourselves but for others.

The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.

This was an honest-to-goodness better-than-expected report. There were no special factors in it that made it look artificially strong. The report also indicates that consumer fatigue may not be as severe as we had previously...

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last...

Unless it ‘ s out of the goodness of someone ‘ s heart, I don ‘ t like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives...

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn’t exist – not in the land of cowardly men.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.

They truly embodied goodness and generosity – like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved...

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

You don’t have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There’s a loophole I found where I don’t do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state...

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the...

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in...

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

We have laws in our country that tell us not to murder or steal and we have police that enforce them. The question is whether you personally need the police to watch you. If they...

Il n’est si homme de bien, qu’il mette à l’examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed...

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

Good and bad exist always, everywhere.

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.

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.

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...