Goodness Quotes - Page 33

• I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Believe, Humans

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

  Rick Warren

  Integrity, Heaven

  "Pastor Rick Warren". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "Should Rosie Be Fired From "The View"?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2007.

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• I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

  Shania Twain

  Lost, Temporary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Thinking, Play, His Love

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• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

  Tom Shadyac

  Fighting, Men, People

  "Tom Shadyac Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Use, Particular

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• Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

  Wojciech Jaruzelski

  War, Ideas, People

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• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  Xunzi

  Evil, Human Nature, Humans

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• For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

  Corliss Lamont

  Heart, Character, Together

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• It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

  Henry M. Field

  Justice, Religion, Charity

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• As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mind, Religion, Doe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Light, Evil

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• It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics".

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Grief, Men, Political

  "The Prince".

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• The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, Gorges, Hey

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• Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Individuality, Woe

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• The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom.
  In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Inspiration, Long

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• It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Men, Belief, He Man

  Henry Mackenzie (1815). “The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. ...: The man of feeling, and miscellaneous pieces.-v.II. The man of the world.-v.III. Julia de Roubigné”, p.192

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• Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

  John C. Danforth

  Religious, Heart, Caring

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 186, September 19, 2006.

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• The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are 'love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness,temperance: against such there is no law' (Gal. 5:22-23).

  James E. Faust

  Love, Lying, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . .

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Home, Giving, House

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• So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

  Franz Liszt

  Father, Air, Taught Us

  Franz Liszt, Marie Sayn-Wittgenstein Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (Prinzessin zu) (1953). “The letters of Franz Liszt to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein”

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• If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Want, Neighbor, Ifs

  "Selected Writings".

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