Goodness Quotes - Page 26

• 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. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

  Wendell Berry

  Light, People, Shining

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint Press

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• I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Greatness, Desire

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jan 28, 2014

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• Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Truth, Special

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• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Positive, Art, Philosophy

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• Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you!

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Hope for Today Bible”, p.1364, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Thinking, Environmental

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• Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

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  Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.'
  "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Men, Long Walks

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• Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Mean

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Humor, Good Humor

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• A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.

  Thomas Dreier

  Beauty, Knowledge, Men

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• Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Taken, Grace

  Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.222, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Decision, Matter

  "The Urgency of Change". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

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• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
  What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts"
  "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Beautiful, Wise

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

  Wangari Maathai

  Inspirational, Religious, Peace

  "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World". Book by Wangari Maathai, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Thank God, Debt

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• Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Love, Law Of Attraction, Giving

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.161, Aigul Aubanova

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• God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.

  Sam Storms

  Sweet, Greatness, Depth

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• What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Communication, Grows

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.147

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