Quotes about Goodness

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our soul: prayer gives truth to our mind, goodness to our will, and beauty to our heart . 'The true, the good, and the beautiful' are the three things we need and love the most, because they are the three attributes of God.