Goodness Quotes
1767 Goodness quotes by 1077 unique authors
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of…
— Plotinus
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If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life -…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
— Joan D. Chittister
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Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.
— Bob Benson
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It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness…
— Eric Maisel
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My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
— Doc Severinsen
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Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
— David E. Sorensen
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The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.
— Samuel Clarke
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Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.
— Isaac of Nineveh
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Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.
— Charlene Costanzo
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means…
— Pythagoras
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To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,…
— John Muir
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Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
— Matthew Arnold
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They are inherently good -- the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His…
— Robert Treat Paine
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Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.
— Saint Basil
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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the…
— Jewel
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Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.
— Baldassare Castiglione
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