Goodness Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evil, Soul, Forget

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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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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• When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they be very brilliant, if they speak outside of the Principle that demonstrates healing and goodness and life.

  Emma Curtis Hopkins

  Healing, Men, Finding Yourself

  Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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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 the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Dream, Party, Ideas

  "Our outsourced lives". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.salon.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Perfect, Inspire

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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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• Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

  Heinrich Mann

  Mean, Degrees, Popularity

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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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• After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

  James Prescott Joule

  Next, Obedience, Attributes

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• I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Motor Racing, Nephew, Firsts

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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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• For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Art, Curls

  "Noted: Diana Vreeland, Alfre Woodard, and Nico Muhly" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. November 1, 2013.

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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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• In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

  Walker Percy

  Fighting, Men, Victory

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.27, Open Road Media

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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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