Goodness Quotes - Page 29

• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, Gentleman

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Success, Men

  Forbes, p. 42, 1948.

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• Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.

  Joseph Prince

  Faith, Spiritual, Jesus

  Joseph Prince (2012). “Healing Promises”, p.51, Charisma Media

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• I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, School, Thinking

  Pope Benedict XVI's Speech Before The Bishops Of The United States At The National Shrine Of The Immaculate Conception In Washington, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2008.

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• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Motivational, Gratitude, Memories

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• In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

  Jeff Miller

  Christmas, Home, Holiday

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• What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Lying, Simple, Men

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• The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

  Dante Alighieri

  Christianity, Creation, Made

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• Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

  David Brainerd

  Men, People, Devil

  Johnathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1835). “Life and Journal of Rev. Dav. Brainerd”, p.88

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• Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  Force, Goodwill, Practicals

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Pain, Simple, Self

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• Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

  William Buckland

  Fate, Science, Religion

  William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Thinking, Compassion, Soup Kitchens

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

  Charles Dickens

  Courage, Integrity, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge: And Hard Times”, p.374

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• Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Enjoy, Endure

  Confucius, Edward Slingerland (2003). “Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Spiritual, Needs, Levels

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• Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Heaven

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• Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.

  Pope John XXIII

  Sweet, Jesus, Memories

  "Journal of a Soul".

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• The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Autumn, Fields, Lips

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

  Martin Luther

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Essence

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• God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

  Kenneth Myers

  Art, Temptation, Safe

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• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

  James Martineau

  Life, Truth, Sleep

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• ... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Men, People

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• If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Men, Naughty

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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