Quotes about Goodness

We must share his truth—to change our world. To make it a place filled with love rather than hate. With peace, rather than war. With mercy, rather than revenge. With holiness, rather than evil.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

In serving the poor, one serves humanity.In serving mankind, one serves equity.In serving goodness, one serves God.In serving the Creator, one serves himself.

Love has the mind of a sage, the heart of a saint, and the soul of an angel.

A good life is made by accumulating in the course of a lifetime everything that is really good and by wanting nothing that impedes or frustrates this effort.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Beauty and goodness are there in each of us. A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you've been seeking. A true teacher is someone who helps you discover the teacher in yourself.

I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

A saint is not someone who is good but someone who experiences the goodness of God.