Quotes about Good

Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us.

The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe

I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.

We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

Nothing that we do ourselves can have any good in it, because it is self working in us. The good in us is the work of God's Spirit, and it is all preparatory to that full death to self to which He seeks to bring us, and in which we are entirely yielded up to God to work all in us.

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. . . . Without holiness no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:10, 14

I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13: "It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.