Quotes about Goodness

Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts.

As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.

When we do good—even when others are doing wrong—God will bless us.

We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

If you are a true Christian... you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit... and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality.

God's grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.

Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God's goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.