Goodness Of God Quotes - Page 3

• And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine for there is no creature so little or so despised but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Book, Heart

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• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Country, Garden

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

  John Ray

  Men, Honor, Occupation

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• Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Prayer, Eye

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Men, Limits

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• This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

  Anne Lamott

  Easter, Sisterhood, Brotherhood

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• Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it

  Gerald Priestland

  Christian, Writing, Suffering

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• (The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.

  Samuel Clarke

  Lying, Misery, Hell

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• In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

  Maimonides

  Kindness, Divine Wisdom, Individual

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

  Julian of Norwich

  Goodness, Should, Should I

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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

  Lying, Goodness, Difficulty

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• The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

  Voltaire

  Men, Order, Goal

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.166, Voltaire

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• We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Lakes, Dancing

  "Grateful in Any Circumstances". Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

  William Chillingworth

  Men, Errors, Atheism

  William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111

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• The Scripture says that God blesses where men walk in unity, so we just thought it's good for us to come together as Democrats, Republicans; believers, nonbelievers, all different walks of life and say hey, we are here to celebrate the goodness of God.

  Joel Osteen

  Men, Unity, Together

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Atheist, Order

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