Quotes about Goodness
The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all....
- AW Pink
One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!
- Ayn Rand
O my Lord and Savior, in Your arms I am safe. Keep me and I have nothing to fear. . . . I know nothing about the future, but I rely upon You. I pray that You would give me what is good for me.
- John Henry Newman
Let all that you do be done in love.
- 1 Corinthians 16:14
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
To love is to will the good of the other.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
- Mary Baker Eddy
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
- Desmond Tutu
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
- Brennan Manning
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
- John Wesley