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Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

Everyone, everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off because there is worth and goodness in every life. Straight from the declaration of independence, that is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will?

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith.

For every act of violence and messiness there are a million acts of kindness and goodness. It just depends where you look. And when I look around at virtually anyone or anything on the planet, I can see another face of intention - beauty.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

God's glory is His goodness.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.