Quotes about Goodness

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.