Quotes about Goodness
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
— St. Augustine
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
— Diane von Furstenberg
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
— Oscar Wilde
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
— Fred Hammond
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
— CS Lewis
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
— Publilius Syrus
God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."
— NT Wright
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
— Mark Twain
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
— Victor Hugo
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
— CS Lewis