A sandalwood tree perfumes its ax.

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

— Alistair Begg

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

— Bret Harte

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

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

— Hanif Kureishi

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

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

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

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

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

— Henry Fielding

And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy…

— Thomas a Kempis

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

— Gregory Boyle

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The…

— John Piper