Goodness Quotes - Page 23

• Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Awful, Standing Out, Happens

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.16, Melville House

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• I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Hair, Saws

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• We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Wise, Believe, People

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• Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe

  "Essays" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?

  Kiersten White

  Sweet, Children, Jumping

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• Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Knowing, Reason

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• God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Children, Real

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• Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking?

  Gail Carriger

  Baby, Jobs, Hard Work

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• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

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• Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Safety, Guarantees

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2012

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• Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mom, Fall, Men

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• Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Omnipotence, Cities

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.

  Anne Ursu

  Believe, Winning, Turtles

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• Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

  Gail Carriger

  Glasses, Looks, Amusement

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• I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Stars, Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.861, Ballantine Books

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• The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Safety, Justice, Humanity

  Encyclical Letter "Spe Salvi", w2.vatican.va. November 30, 2007.

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• You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Evil, Laughing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• [...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Important, Said

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.239, Ballantine Books

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• I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Sick, People

  Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

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• God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Essentials, Use, Sovereign

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2007). “When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness”, p.39, Moody Publishers

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• You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

  Saint Augustine

  Needs, Lord

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.125, OUP Oxford

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• For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.

  Darynda Jones

  Real, Guy, Firsts

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• But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Lying, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

  Joseph Prince

  Blessing, Faithfulness, Provision

  Joseph Prince (2011). “100 Days of Favor”, p.154, Charisma Media

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• Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Choices, Doe

  Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.24, A&C Black

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