Quotes about Goodness
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
— James MacDonald
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
— Julian of Norwich
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
— Wendell Berry
Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
— CS Lewis
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
— William Saroyan
A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.
— William Wilberforce
The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.
— David Starr Jordan
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
— Dennis Prager