Quotes about Goodness
Good deeds are the highest notes in life's symphony.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
f you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.
— CS Lewis
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
— St. Augustine
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
— CS Lewis
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
— Confucius
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
— Albert Schweitzer