Quotes about Goodness

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

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.

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.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

God is great and so he planted seeds of greatness in you. God is good so there is goodness in you. God is love so there is love within you.

All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.

We can't be saved without being good, but 'tis not because our goodness is sufficient, or can do anything of itself. But 'tis because all whose hearts come to Christ will be good, and if men ben't good, their hearts never will come to Christ.

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

now I saw it was so far from any goodness in me to own myself spiritually dead and destitute of all goodness that, on the contrary, my mouth would be forever stopped by it; and it looked as dreadful to me to see myself and the relation I stood in to God—I a sinner and criminal, and He a great Judge and Sovereign—as it would be to a poor trembling creature to venture off some high precipice.