Quotes about Goodness

It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

We can think that God is good, and we are pleased with him, though we might be pleased less with him than we are with the ease of our lives. Then, when life is hard—especially when life remains hard—the allegiances of our hearts.

Refractions of divine goodness are best identified, praised, and enjoyed. If their appearance is episodic and brief, and even if they are contaminated with selfishness or pride, don't let the unattractive features of someone's life blind you to the good.

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Wer sich vornimmt, Gutes zu wirken, darf nicht erwarten, dass die Menschen ihm deswegen Steine aus dem Weg räumen, sondern muss auf das Schicksalshafte gefasst sein, dass sie ihm welche daraufrollen.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.