#goodness

"A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive."

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever."

"I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!"

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."

"The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become."

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."

"The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"

"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not."

"Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was behind her, that I could have brought happiness to at least one mortal. Me and my dreams of goodness. I had always been a fool for them."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true."

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!"