Quotes about Goodness

If the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

Darwin was led to his agnostic naturalism as much by the misery which he observed in the world as by the facts which scientific investigation brought under his notice. There was too much strife and injustice in the world for him to believe in providence and a predetermined goal. A world so full of cruelty and pain he could not reconcile with the omniscience, the omnipotence, the goodness of God.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.