Goodness Quotes - Page 21

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  Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.'
  "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Men, Long Walks

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• Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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• We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Mean

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

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• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Sky

  Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Judging, People

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Humor, Good Humor

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• A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.

  Thomas Dreier

  Beauty, Knowledge, Men

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• Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Taken, Grace

  Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.222, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? If it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. If goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Decision, Matter

  "The Urgency of Change". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

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• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
  What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts"
  "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Beautiful, Wise

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

  Wangari Maathai

  Inspirational, Religious, Peace

  "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World". Book by Wangari Maathai, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Giving, Honor

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Thank God, Debt

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• ... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I fear no evil, for You are with me...
  Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

  David

  Bible, Book, Shadow Of Death

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• Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Love, Law Of Attraction, Giving

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• The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you really need has been supplied. Life no longer need be about your goodness, success, righteousness, or failure. I've given you something infinitely more valuable than good feelings: your sins are forgiven."

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Depression, Daughter, Heart

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Change, Truth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.308

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• The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.161, Aigul Aubanova

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• God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.

  Sam Storms

  Sweet, Greatness, Depth

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• What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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