Goodness Quotes - Page 36

• The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

  Adrian Rogers

  Birth, Form, Substitutes

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.243, B&H Publishing Group

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• Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

  Confucius

  Wise, Select, Ifs

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• You never have to buy an issue of Cosmo again to be the 'Best Lover He's Ever Had.' Just remember this phrase: 'Oh my goodness, I don't know if that will fit.' Then start mentally picking out jewelry.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Issues, Phrases, Jewelry

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• Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God.

  Guru Angad

  Beautiful, Desire, Way

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• As it's your 40th birthday
  This, we'd like to say
  May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
  On this, your special day.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• My goodness, you're 60 already, already
  Time is a thief
  But still, you're only as old as your tongue
  And a little bit older than your teeth
  Have a wonderful birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Teeth, Thieves

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• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

  William Dean Howells

  Sister, Heart, Twins

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• There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for us, and to acknowledge his goodness to us. He has commanded that this should be so.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Learning, Together, Essentials

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• The rivers flow long distances and their goodness spreads all over far and wide. We are far from each other but our love for each other is creating a story that will forever be remembered.

  Daran Norris

  Distance, Rivers, Creating

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• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Wise, Adversity, Men

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

  David Platt

  Blessing, Greatness, People

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• The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

  Horace Walpole

  Respect, Philosophy, World

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.

  Iolo Morganwg

  Understanding Knowledge, Justice, Religion

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• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

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• Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Matter, Good Nature, Mere

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 10 (1651)

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• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Evil

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• My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Men, Instinct, Intellect

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• And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

  John Tillotson

  World, Littles, Sincere

  "The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Long, Evil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Believe, Adversity, Trusting Him

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• Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expenses, Moral Perfection, Dullness

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.106

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