Quotes about Goodness

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People

In spite of everything I still believe that people r really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, death & misery. I c the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions & yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, & that peace & tranquility will return again.

Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!

I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.

I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure.

Love and goodness and the world's beauty and humanity are the reasons we have hope.

Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.

Goodness and courage are how the divine presents itself so often—whether in drag, as close friends, or as EMTs.

The point was to lean toward goodness, to resist less, to pray for our enemies. The point was to have a spiritual awakening of any sort that would help us live more often in kind awareness.