Quotes about Goodness

Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.

It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

The Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

the better angels of our nature

The Lord has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.