Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

Injuries come only from the heart.

In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

I think that, like most of us, I was born with an innate goodness. And I believe that God has seen that in me and has protected me through times when I should have died so I could fulfill my potential and do his work.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.