Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside…

— Anonymous

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

— Henry Fielding

The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

— Jonathan Kozol

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.…

— Wendell Berry

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

— Pope Francis

the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root…

— Pope John Paul II

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

— Hanif Kureishi

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in…

— Rupert Brooke

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

— Alistair Begg

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero