Quotes about Good
Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.
- Peter Chrysologus
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
- Martin Luther
Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
- Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
- Eugene Peterson
For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.
- Eugene Peterson
The kingdom is here. We are in it. The "sum of money" that we are left with is not something to be guarded, protected, and kept safe, but put to good use.
- Eugene Peterson
I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it.
- Eugene Peterson
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
- Euripides
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln