Goodness Quotes - Page 12

• To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
  The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

  John Wolcot

  Long, Hypocrisy, Faces

  John Wolcot (1797). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.116

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• Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Suffering, Foundation

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• Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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• A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts
  of others.

  Albert Pike

  Honesty, Integrity, Heart

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Beautiful, God, Mirrors

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• How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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• Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, People

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• There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Wickedness, Badness

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• For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us. It is when we do see something of him by his grace that we are stirred by that same grace to seek him, and with earnest longing to see still more of his blessedness. So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him. It seems to me that this is and should be an experience common to us all.

  Julian of Norwich

  Grace, Saws, Common

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• Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Notion, Deprived

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• Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Trying, Three Things

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• Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

  Julian of Norwich

  Done, Deeds, Sin

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

  Julian of Norwich

  Sight

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

  Sue Thoele

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

  H. E Davey

  Genuine, Postponement

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• What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: fierth.com

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• Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

  Anna Friel

  Children, Men, Vanity

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Ifs And

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Badness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Men, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1085, Manonmani Publishers

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• You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Times, Evil, Hard

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• I was always interested in science, truth, goodness and fairness. I have always been strongly individualistic and merit-oriented. This is probably because I was adopted and thus have always tended to cavalierly dismiss the importance of "blood ties" and any inherited or "unearned" group characteristics.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Blood, Ties, Groups

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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