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• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, Animal, Men

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Years, Cheerful

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• We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than other women who think: Oh, goodness, well, if I let the lid off, where would we be?

  Claire Messud

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. May 19, 2013.

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

  Walter Scott

  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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• Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessing, Opportunity, Possession

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

  M. Scott Peck

  Truth, Pain, Hate

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• For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

  Wendell Berry

  Success, Mean, Law

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• She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

  Willa Cather

  Autumn, Apples, Hands

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.566, eBookIt.com

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• As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Grace, Guilt, Debt

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Two, Giving

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• Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence, a history of goodness which touches every story of suffering and opens up a ray of light.

  Pope Francis

  Night, Journey, Light

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.114, Orbis Books

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• It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Faith, Inspiration, Add

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• Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  Gemma Galgani

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Harbors, Reverence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.73

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• I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Caring, Thinking

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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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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• The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Philosophy, Cutting, Science

  Presidential Address to Classical Association, 1959.

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• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

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• It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Paper, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God - their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Thinking

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• You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Karma, Self

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• Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Karma, Heaven, Sin

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

  Janet Taylor Spence

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Gratitude

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• Goodness, Time's rude hand defies,
  And winter lives when beauty dies.

  Henry Kirke White

  Winter, Hands, Rude

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