Quotes about Good

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off.... the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the function of life.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered.

If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.