Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy.

To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.

There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.