Quotes about Good
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.
— St Bonaventure
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
— Saint Jerome
The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.
— Sam Storms
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
— Samuel Johnson
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
— Samuel Johnson
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection
— Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
— Dorothy Sayers
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
— Soren Kierkegaard
That space the evil one abstracted stood from his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
— John Milton
Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.
— Marianne Williamson