Goodness Quotes - Page 19

• But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kindness, Self, Joy

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• There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Selfish, Mean

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Years, Cheerful

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• But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

  Julian of Norwich

  Should, Should I, Goodness Of God

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• You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kindness, Giving, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

  Stephen Schwartz

  Lonely, Wicked, Knows

  Song: No One Mourns The Wicked

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• Isn't Bunson's training evil geniuses?" "Yes, mostly." "Well, is that wise? Having a mess of seedling evil geniuses falling in love with you willy-nilly? What if they feel spurned?" "Ah, but in the interim, think of the lovely gifts they can make you. Monique bragged that one of her boys made her silver and wood hair sticks as anti-supernatural weapons. With amethyst inlay. And another made her an exploding wicker chicken." "Goodness, what's that for?" Dimity pursed her lips. "Who doesn't want an exploding wicker chicken?

  Gail Carriger

  Wise, Falling In Love, Love You

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• We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than other women who think: Oh, goodness, well, if I let the lid off, where would we be?

  Claire Messud

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Unacceptable Anger From 'The Woman Upstairs'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. May 19, 2013.

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• It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

  Roger Scruton

  Nice, People, Assumption

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• ...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, World

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• The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, World, Fine

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• There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dream, Regret, Desire

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

  Walter Scott

  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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• ...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Needs, Lowest

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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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• For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Kissing, Men, Light

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• Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name Six-Fingered Nigel." Jem:"Easy mistake to make." (later) Will: "I want to be back before dark. I have an assignation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone" Tessa: “Goodness, If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Mistake, Dark

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• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

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• He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.91, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

  Wendell Berry

  Success, Mean, Law

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• Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Inspiration, Appreciate

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

  Wendell Berry

  Light, People, Shining

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint Press

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• I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

  Ilchi Lee

  Believe, Greatness, Desire

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jan 28, 2014

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• Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Truth, Special

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• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Positive, Art, Philosophy

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