Quotes about Good
People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians. Statesmen are leaders who uphold what is right regardless of the popularity of the position. Statesmen speak out to achieve good for their people, not to win votes. Statesmen promote the general good rather than regional or personal self-interest.
— Henry Blackaby
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.
— Leonard Ravenhill
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
— St. Jerome
If we are to fight evil in our world—as we are called to do—we cannot harbor deceitfulness in our hearts. May God give us the courage and the strength and the wisdom to live as he wants us to live. He is a holy God. And he is also a God of love. He desires only our good. He will show us what we each must learn from this experience today.
— Janette Oke
God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.
— Joyce Meyer
O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
— Martin Luther
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
— Nancy Pearcey
Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.
— Joyce Meyer
The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.
— John Piper
Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.
— Jesse Lee Peterson