Quotes about Good
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
— Charles Spurgeon
The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.
— Edmund Burke
We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.
— Wendell Berry
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
— Thomas Jefferson
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Surrounding us is a spirit world, far more populous, powerful, and resourceful than our own visible world of human beings. Spirits, good and evil, wend their way in our midst. With lightning speed and noiseless movement they pass from place to place. They inhabit the spaces of the air about us. Some we know to be concerned for our welfare, others are set on our harm.
— John Hagee
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
— St. Basil
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
— Charles Dickens
Nothing inspires people to believe in God as much as God-centered people doing good, just as nothing alienates people from belief in God as much as people doing evil in God's name.
— Dennis Prager
a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.
— Norman Geisler