Goodness Quotes - Page 34

• The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taste, Moments, Lost

  "Selected Literary Essays".

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• For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Fountainhead

  "Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection".

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Simplicity, Squalor

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

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• Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Practice, Grace

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, Risk, Path

  Brennan Manning (2010). “Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• In that realm you will know at last the good news: that your "devil" does not exist, that you are who you always thought you were-goodness and love. Your idea that you might be something else has come from an insane outer world, causing you to act insanely. An outer world of judgment and condemnation. Others have judged you, and from their judgments you have judged yourself. Now you want God to judge you, and I will not do it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Ideas, Judging

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.53, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.

  Wes Fesler

  Believe, Reflection, Choices

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• Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Hate, Heart, Evil

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.52

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• The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Favors, Mankind

  "The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language".

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Artist, Air

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.166

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• If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy! Your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms! And your need is the motive for heavenly goodness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Feelings, Needs, Ruins

  "Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 12: 1866".

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• Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if you've already taken the bait and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration, marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor in order to turn the tide. Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I'm feeling now? Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free.

  Pema Chodron

  Meaningful, Taken, Cutting

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, World, Vehicle

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• It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sheep, Mind, Doe

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.720, Head of Zeus

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• We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Want, Habit, Situation

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• When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Talking, Term, Inherent

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• Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Inspirational, Men, Justice

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113

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• I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Believe, Mean

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

  Vincent McNabb

  Dream, Radiance

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• If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

  Eric Gill

  Looks, Ifs

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• And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

  Grover Cleveland

  Country, Blessing, Destiny

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Stars, Past, Rewards

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