A Quote by Matthew Henry

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

Matthew Henry

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Goodness Greatness Makes More Much Truly Valuable

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Matthew Henry
English - Priest
October 18, 1662 - June 22, 1714

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Matthew Henry

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Athenaeus

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.

Howard Dean

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.

Sri Chinmoy

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Leo Tolstoy

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.