Quotes about Good

Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12

A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man pro- duces evil things from his storeroom of evil. Matthew 12:35

Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight" (2 Sam. 10:12).

All my knotted-up life I've longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who's good and who's bad. I've wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. I needed God to clean up the mess, divide the room, sort the mail so all of us can just get on with it and be who we are. Go where we're bent.

There for the taking. Simply put, we're meant to be agents of good in the world, not professional closers for Jesus. But make no mistake: when we endure and do good, that will witness.

You don't have to take an ethics course. You don't have to know God well to know that, if he is righteous at all, some things are wrong. If he is good at all, some things are evil. If God is love, then nothing is more blasphemous than hate.

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? Luke 6:9

They are to teach what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and children. Titus 2:3—4

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish — that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.