Quotes about Good

ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.