Best 1197 quotes in «goodness quotes» category

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.

Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

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

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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