Quotes about Goodness

If you have love you will do all things well.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

God is love so all God does is loving.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.