Quotes about Goodness

God alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

God's goal isn't just to remove the bad things in our lives; He wants to replace them with good things. His plan is to remake us from within, by His Holy Spirit.

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.

The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God . . .The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God; and I publicly and openly acknowledged my need of Christ.

Christ's goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts.

As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.

When we do good—even when others are doing wrong—God will bless us.

We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.

To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

If you are a true Christian... you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit... and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality.

God's grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.