Quotes about Goodness

Love is the plummet as well as the astrolabe of God's mysteries, and the pure in heart can see far down into the depths of the divine justice, to catch a glimpse, not indeed of the details of the cosmic process, but at least of its principle and nature. These insights permit them to say [...] that all shall be well, that, in spite of time, all is well, and that the problem of evil has its solution in the eternity, which men can, if they so desire, experience, but can never describe.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheist, and have been moved, or because they have wanted to be fair all their lives, but have never stepped in a church, from those who have heard God's words in church or read His words in the Bible and become convinced by them.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

God's love, mercy, grace, goodness, kindness, and patience do not cancel out or water down His standard of perfect holiness. There is no spectrum of holiness. It is completely black and white. Just one speck of sin, corruption, or imperfection results in impurity.