Quotes about Goodness

Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Love is the plummet as well as the astrolabe of God's mysteries, and the pure in heart can see far down into the depths of the divine justice, to catch a glimpse, not indeed of the details of the cosmic process, but at least of its principle and nature. These insights permit them to say [...] that all shall be well, that, in spite of time, all is well, and that the problem of evil has its solution in the eternity, which men can, if they so desire, experience, but can never describe.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheist, and have been moved, or because they have wanted to be fair all their lives, but have never stepped in a church, from those who have heard God's words in church or read His words in the Bible and become convinced by them.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

I know the heart of life is good.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

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