Quotes about Good

We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could

To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.