Goodness Quotes - Page 23

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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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• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  Xunzi

  Evil, Human Nature, Humans

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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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• For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

  Corliss Lamont

  Heart, Character, Together

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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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• It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of observances that have no relation whatever to natural goodness, but which rather exclude it by being a substitute for it. Penances and pilgrimages take the place of justice and mercy, benevolence and charity. Such a religion, so far from being a purifier, is the great corrupter of morals.

  Henry M. Field

  Justice, Religion, Charity

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• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Light, Evil

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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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• It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

  "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics".

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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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• Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom.
  In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Inspiration, Long

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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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• It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Men, Belief, He Man

  Henry Mackenzie (1815). “The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. ...: The man of feeling, and miscellaneous pieces.-v.II. The man of the world.-v.III. Julia de Roubigné”, p.192

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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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