Goodness Quotes

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

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.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.