Quotes about Goodness
To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.
— Max Lucado
God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
— JI Packer
God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.
— John Bevere
God is good, and He cannot be anything else.
— Joyce Meyer
Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
— Julian of Norwich
We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?
— Max Lucado
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.
— Charles Spurgeon
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
— Timothy Keller
God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
— David Platt
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
— John Calvin
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.
— Philip James Bailey