Goodness Quotes

• If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Different
  • Looks
  • Crosses

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

  

  Charlene Costanzo
  • May
  • Seasons
  • Passages

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wealth
  • Simplicity
  • Goodness

• 'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Goodness

• Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Joy
  • Clothes
  • Goodness

• Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Desperate

• Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • People
  • Goodness
  • Trickle

• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Sin
  • Infinite
  • Obligation

• Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.

  

  David E. Sorensen
  • Constant
  • Temples
  • Reminder

• 9/11 allowed us to witness the ordinary face of goodness in the love that those about to die brought with them to work that day. It is fitting that we refer to a large segment of the church year as Ordinary Time because it describes the look of the true faith that, as we read of the Kingdom, is spread about us.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Church

• There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Film
  • Feel
  • Making

• We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

  

  Edmund Gibson
  • Help
  • Goodness
  • Faults

• I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Inspired
  • Goodness

• ...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • World
  • Destroy

• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Energy
  • Wisdom
  • Imagination

• For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Kind
  • Affair
  • Prospering

• It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Life
  • God
  • Wisdom

• The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Good
  • Goodness

• If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Strange

• The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Lying
  • Celebrate

• It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Moral
  • Qualities
  • Relatives

• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Better
  • Worst
  • Goodness

• There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ability

• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Forget

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