Goodness Quotes

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

~ Alasdair Gray

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

~ Maya Angelou

Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

~ Simon Zingerman

The gospel opens our heart to the goodness of God

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

~ Andy Rooney

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

~ Ellis Peters

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

The only true religion is the grace to act right.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

~ Herman Melville

If we seek God first, we shall all other goodness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out.

~ Toba Beta

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.

~ Sunday Adelaja

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Good intentions do not always suffice.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

~ John Fowles

Now, the atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see us through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith like Enoch and Elijah we must believe what they believed, know what they knew, and live as they lived.

~ Bruce R. Mcconkie

Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.

~ John Phillips

A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.

~ Agu

Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive.

~ Werley Nortreus

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

~ Nelson Mandela

In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.

~ Helen Quist Milligan

Meredith was good, so incredibly good, and Charles had fallen, without fireworks, for that goodness. But goodness did not transfer. Being with someone good does not make you good. This it would take years for Charles to comprehend.

~ Mai Al-Nakib

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

~ Steve Maraboli

The royal power is the grace to act right.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Help anyone who comes to you, as much as lies in your power, not because you are good person, nor because you want to be adored, but because you are a real human – a real human of the civilized society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

~ Germany Kent

Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

~ Justin Alcala

If you don't get the wrong people out of your life, you will never be able to get the right people in it!

~ Alex Haditaghi

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 it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

~ Martin Luther

You can ask why all day long if you want to. You can ask God why and your friends why and yourself why until you're buried in nothing but that single question, but you'll never get an answer. This side of heaven, time is the only thing that helps a little bit. So don't give in. Don't let the whys have it. Don't let them take advantage of you. They'll crush your heart and steal your peace and mess with your mind and wrap around you so tight you won't be able to breathe. Don't let the whys ruin your life, child. Every time they try to sneak up, push them aside and move forward. Trust me, it's the only way you can get on with living.I turn toward the window and think about her words. What if I can't? Let it go, I mean?I don't see her smile, but I can hear it. You can. I know you can. Because no matter how hard life gets, there's always goodness right around the corner. All you have to do is look for it.

~ Amy Matayo

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)

~ Ravi Ravindra

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

~ Criss Jami

Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.

~ Criss Jami

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times.

~ J.m. Coetzee