Quotes about Good

Thus the true cause of the blessedness of the good angels is found to be this, that they cleave to Him who supremely is. And if we ask the cause of the misery of the bad, it occurs to us, and not unreasonably, that they are miserable because they have forsaken Him who supremely is, and have turned to themselves who have no such essence. And this vice, what else is it called than pride? For "pride is the beginning of sin."

There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.

For God is unchangeable, and wholly proof against injury. Therefore the vice which makes those who are called His enemies resist Him, is an evil not to God, but to themselves. And to them it is an evil, solely because it corrupts the good of their nature.

Accordingly we say that there is no unchangeable good but the one, true, blessed God; that the things which He made are indeed good because from Him, yet mutable because made not out of Him, but out of nothing.

For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."

The soul, then, lives by God when it lives well, for it cannot live well unless by God working in it what is good; and the body lives by the soul when the soul lives in the body, whether itself be living by God or no. For the wicked man's life in the body is a life not of the soul, but of the body.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.