Goodness Quotes - page 4

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. (Khaled Hosseini)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. View quote
John Dryden
I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? View quote
Anthony Burgess
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. View quote
Julian of Norwich
God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. View quote
Shirley Jackson
With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion. (Paul McCartney)
Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. View quote
John Jay Chapman
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Thank goodness for all the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. View quote
William Buckland
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun. View quote
Jon Anderson
Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake. View quote
Jon Anderson
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. (Kenneth Grahame)
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. View quote
Georg Brandes
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction. View quote
Georg Brandes
I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune. View quote
Walter Russell
He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows." View quote
James Freeman Clarke