Quotes about Good

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.

On the other hand are the ungodly who want to have a full and secure belly. If anyone talks to them about faith and patience, they mock and despise Him and say, "Can this fool tell us what is good? Yes, you be patient until a roast chicken flies into your mouth. Trust in that and you will starve!

There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I believe. Yes, since faith alone suffices for salvation, I need nothing except faith exercising the power and dominion of its own liberty.

the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises. The precepts certainly teach us what is good, but what they teach is not forthwith done. For they show us what we ought to do, but do not give us the power to do it. They were ordained, however, for the purpose of showing man to himself, that through them he may learn his own impotence for good and may despair of his own strength. For this reason they are called the Old Testament, and are so.