Top 1200 Goodness In The World Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.

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.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

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

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

I value niceness. But now, as a grown person, I value goodness above that. Because niceness doesn't change anything, and goodness changes things.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!

How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.

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

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless!

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.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.