Goodness Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Identity, Cards

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Guests, Soup

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Mind, Sometimes

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Sympathy, Religious, Heart

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

  Francis Bacon

  Kindness, Kids, Caring

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• We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rain, Son, Sky

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• The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

  Voltaire

  Character, Men, Way

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• There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Religious, Law

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.526

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• How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

  Robert Mondavi

  Beautiful, Heart, Giving

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• God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.8

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• I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Would Be, World

  "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November 13, 2009.

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• All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

  Charles A. Dana

  Eggs, Badness

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• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

  Bill Johnson

  Capacity

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• The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Men, Inclination

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'

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• Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

  Bill Johnson

  People, Generosity, Awakening

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• Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

  Bill Johnson

  Awareness

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• The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

  Menander

  Evil, Excess, Chiefs

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• Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

  William Congreve

  Men, Forgiving

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.164

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• Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

  William Ellery Channing

  Heart, Men, Our World

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

  William Ellery Channing

  Sublime, Doctrine, Eternal Life

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses”, p.117

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• Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

  James Beard

  James Beard (1995). “Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles: Letters from Helen Evans Brown”, p.142, Arcade Publishing

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• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  William Ellery Channing

  Taken, Good Friend, Blessing

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