“Goodness exists independently of our conception of it. The good is out there and it always has been out there, even before… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The intimate space of your personal life should be reserved for amazing, beautiful, radiant souls — good, wholesome and loving people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress. — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
The Scripture says that God blesses where men walk in unity, so we just thought it's good for us to come together… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity,… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Often times, the world looks at Christians and they are quick to criticize the ways we fall short. That is not God’s… — Lisa Bedrick Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We want them to see their home planet," Mrs. Whatsit said. The Medium lost the delighted smile she had worn till then.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Speak of only goodness into your life. Bad attracts bad. Remain positive and I bet you see quicker results! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it! — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
Think good thoughts. Speak good words. Take good actions. Three steps that will bring more to you than you can ever imagine. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to believe there are people that don’t read books. There’s so much magic in words and well told stories.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentrating on the bad things you are doing will never help you do the good things that you desire to do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” — socrates Copy Share Image
Compassion is likely the most under-appreciated of all human characteristics. — T Jay Taylor Copy Share Image
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
