Quotes about Goodness

God will always nudge us in the direction of kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control.16 When in doubt, max those out.

Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Christianity has been a boon to mankind . . . (and) has had a beneficent effect upon the human race. . . . Most people today who live in an ostensibly Christian environment with Christian ethics do not realize how much we owe Jesus of Nazareth. . . . What goodness and mercy there is in this world has come in large measure from him. D. James Kennedy, Christian

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.