Goodness Quotes - Page 36

• God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will he is united to God. At the same time, in His goodness he is merciful to the sinner and by chastising him in this life brings him back to the path of virtue. Similarly, a man of good and dispassionate judgment also loves all men equally. He loves the virtuous man because of his nature and the probity of his intention; and he loves the sinner, too, because of his nature and because in his compassion he pities him for foolishly stumbling in darkness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Compassion

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• If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

  John Woolman

  Love, Happiness, Children

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

  William Penn

  Wisdom, Country, Garden

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  True Love, Majesty, Lovers

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Believe, Vanity, Checks

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• We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Exercise, Wish, Moments

  Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”

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• Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks—try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Jesus, Children, Night

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• We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

  Josephine Hart

  Add, Prove, Humans

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.

  Michio Kushi

  Selfish, People, Enemy

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• Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

  John Dufresne

  Lovers, Capable, Being Loved

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Respect, Teaching, Littles

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• God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Achievement, Agility, Salvation

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• We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

  Francis Spufford

  Needs, Sides, Supposed To Be

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

  Johan Huizinga

  Play, Justice, Mind

  Johan Huizinga (1971). “Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

  Stephen Charnock

  God, Father, World

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• I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.

  Ralph Bunche

  Religious, Hate, Believe

  Ralph J. Bunche “Fighter for Peace”

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• He created the flavors! He created the colors. He created it all, and he did it all out of the overflow of his perfections. It’s not like he was thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve got some fajita flavoring over here. I know: let’s put it on the cow and the chicken.’ He created the avocado to have a certain flavor; he created the skirt steak, the fillet, and the tenderloin to have certain flavors. That was God’s doing. So every aspect of creation, from the largest galaxy to the tiniest burst of flavor in food or drink or seasoning, radiates the goodness of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Thinking, Color, Perfection

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• I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.

  Otto Penzler

  Jobs, Thinking, Justice

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• Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Feminist, Feminism, Sense Of Humor

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• We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Humanist, Concepts

  "Design and Technology for the Next Generation". Book edited by David Barlex, 2007.

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• Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Blessed, Men, Years

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, Animal, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Moral Goodness, Vegetarian

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.438, e-artnow

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• Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Reality, Generosity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious.

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, Feel Better, Joy

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