Goodness Quotes - Page 39

• I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

  Dr. Seuss

  Lucky, Jam, Ham

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• For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

  Nelson Mandela

  Principles, Moral Goodness, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!

  John Owen

  Eye, Grace And Mercy, Soul

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• A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Faith, Thankful

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• What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Pride, Self

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• God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

  John Bevere

  Waiting, Ifs

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Father, Heart, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 220, 1895.

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• Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

  Frank Capra

  Dream, Strong, Children

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• Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.

  Etienne Gilson

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in other things more of His wisdom is seen, and in others more of His power. But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.

  Thomas Boston

  Perfection, Shining, Redemption

  Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.158

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• Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

  Horatius Bonar

  Want, Recognition, Absence

  Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com

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• The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved -- loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.

  Horatius Bonar

  Heart, Our World, Humanity

  Horatius Bonar (2018). “God's Way of Holiness”, p.36, Bible Study Books

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• We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Government, Pay, Lord

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Feb 26, 2014

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• I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

  Jacqueline Rose

  Nice, Hair, Clothes

  "Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

  Diane Frolov

  People, Incapable

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• Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

  R. J. Palacio

  Spiritual, Believe, Politically Correct

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.307, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

  Anne Lamott

  Easter, Sisterhood, Brotherhood

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• If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

  Desmond Tutu

  Men, Sake, Ifs

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

  Khalil

  Teaching, Men, Sorrow

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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Teaching

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• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Giving, Taoism

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