#goodness

"Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul."

"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."

"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."

"In the beginning..when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates universe. That radiance is the light of knowledge and goodness. That radiance will persistently and consistently shines brightly even after all the stars and moons in this vast universe died out."

"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."

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

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

"I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness."

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

"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."

"Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good."

"It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost."

"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."

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

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."

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

"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

"That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire."

"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."