Quotes about Goodness

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

God moves in power, in signs and wonders—healing the sick, in deliverances, multiplying food for the hungry, raising the dead—primarily for this reason: He is good! And it is His desire to reveal His goodness—His glory—in all the earth.

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.