Goodness Quotes - Page 38

• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

  David Platt

  Blessing, Greatness, People

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• The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

  Horace Walpole

  Respect, Philosophy, World

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.

  Iolo Morganwg

  Understanding Knowledge, Justice, Religion

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

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• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Matter, Good Nature, Mere

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 10 (1651)

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• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Evil

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• My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Men, Instinct, Intellect

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• And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

  John Tillotson

  World, Littles, Sincere

  "The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Long, Evil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expenses, Moral Perfection, Dullness

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.106

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• How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Happiness, Opportunity, Moments

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• Good is good, but better carrieth it.

  Henry George Bohn

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.364

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• Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Difficulty, Reports, Rarity

  Michel de Montaigne (1903*). “Essays of Montaigne”

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• Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Heart, Men

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• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

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• If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.

  Jay Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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• We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Lifestyle

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• You are remembered for your goodness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Remembered

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• ... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Running, Animal, Men

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• My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

  Al Jardine

  Horse, Couple, Pigs

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• We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

  Ishmael Beah

  Thinking, Glimpse, Radiance

  "The Brilliance of Ishmael Beah" by Nina Sankovitch, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Long, Joy, Suffering

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