Quotes about Good

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.