Quotes about Goodness

God is light and in him there is no darkness" (1 John 1:5). Indeed, God's "eyes are too pure to behold evil" (Hab. 1:13). How are these verses consistent with the view that everything— including all the evil that people have experienced throughout history—is part of God's sovereign will?

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

Influence other people for good.

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

Folks say I'm good, he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones—like Mistress Blythe here—wouldn't show up so well.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth

Darling, you're terribly mistaken about it all. God doesn't make bargains. He gives... gives without asking anything from us in return except love. When you ask Father or me for something you want, we don't make bargains with you... and God is ever and ever so much kinder than we are. And He knows so much better than we do what is good to give.