Goodness Quotes - Page 37

• Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Heart, Baptism

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• Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Faith, Art, Memories

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• It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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• I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!

  John Proctor

  Dog, Heart, Thinking

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• I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

  Confucius

  Giving Up, Hate, Practice

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• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Filth, Albany

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

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• Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Wisdom, Law, Forgiving

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• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

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• And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

  John Milton

  Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.261

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• Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Wisdom, Prayer, Pride

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Greatness, Moments

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• Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

  Confucius

  Love, Strong, Learning

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• Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Truth, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.

  John Stokes

  Beauty, Christian, Truth

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• It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

  Confucius

  Beauty, Wise, Names

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• O Lord, if I could fly to my people and tell them of your goodness at the top of my voice, oh how many souls would be won!

  Josephine Bakhita

  Voice, People, Catholic

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• Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

  Confucius

  Wise, Select, Ifs

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God.

  Guru Angad

  Beautiful, Desire, Way

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• As it's your 40th birthday
  This, we'd like to say
  May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
  On this, your special day.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• My goodness, you're 60 already, already
  Time is a thief
  But still, you're only as old as your tongue
  And a little bit older than your teeth
  Have a wonderful birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Teeth, Thieves

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• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

  William Dean Howells

  Sister, Heart, Twins

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• There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Learning, Together, Essentials

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• The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

  Daran Norris

  Distance, Rivers, Creating

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• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Wise, Adversity, Men

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