Quotes about Goodness
We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
— Maya Angelou
He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.
— Bill Clinton
doing good required taking risks.
— Ted Dekker
It is written that in the last days the earth will tremble at the goodness of God. So then I ask you, what kind of goodness would make you weak in the knees with gratitude and awe?
— Ted Dekker
Love, dear one. The love that knows no wrong like the light knows no darkness.
— Ted Dekker
Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness and his wish that it should be shown?
— Julian of Norwich
God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
— Julian of Norwich
so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.
— Julian of Norwich
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
— Julian of Norwich
God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.
— Julian of Norwich
the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
— Julian of Norwich
For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, [34] so are we, soul and body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed.
— Julian of Norwich