Quotes about Good

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

It's the whole thing,' he asserted. 'It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

The wrath of God is always exercised in the service of God's good purposes. It is the unconditional love of God manifested against anything that would frustrate or destroy the designs of his love.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.