Goodness Quotes · Page 73

If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life…

— Peter Julian Eymard

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much…

— Philip Sidney

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,…

— Jeremy Collier

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't…

— Paula Deen

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his…

— James Hamilton

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more…

— Barbara Walters

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

— Vernon Howard

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and…

— Iyanla Vanzant

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They…

— Anonymous

The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely…

— George H. Smith

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy…

— Helen Keller

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned…

— Gladys Bronwyn Stern

Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God…

— Rebecca Goldstein

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my…

— Albert Schweitzer

There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,…

— Muhammad

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the…

— Gretel Ehrlich

All we ever want is a story, that's all you want. So, you give a fairly long speech to somebody to tell…

— Brenda Fricker

I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough…

— John Proctor

“In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations…

— Sanhita Baruah

I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I…

— China Forbes

In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was…

— Nikolai Gogol

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently!…

— Jim Gaffigan

God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that…

— Joyce Meyer

Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in His essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True,…

— Arthur W. Pink

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values…

— Pope Francis

“Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not.…

— Anonymous

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision…

— Dinty W. Moore

Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer….It kept me focused and gave me more control over the…

— Sheryl Crow

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being…

— Phillips Brooks

[about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make…

— J. K. Rowling

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to…

— Anonymous

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret…

— Guy Finley

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness…

— Horace Walpole

There is a goodness about Yao that is unique, that never left him through all the pain and injuries and disappointments that…

— Jeff Van Gundy

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away,…

— D.T. Suzuki

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,…

— Desmond Tutu

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer