Quotes about Goodness

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.

Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God's goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

The wicked have told me of delights, but not such as Thy law, O Lord.

There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.