Quotes about Good

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Sometimes it does a chap's heart good to rescue a beautiful woman. Makes him remember why God rescued him.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

Rivka believed that HaShem was both all-good and all-powerful—so good that he created people, so powerful that he gave them free will. And that made evil possible. If men could not choose evil, then they were not free. Therefore, the existence of evil was proof of HaShem's great power to create those who could choose to oppose him.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.