Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Votes: 4
Reinhold NiebuhrTrue religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Votes: 4
Albert EinsteinGoodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Votes: 4
Saul BellowGoodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Votes: 3
Matthew HenryAlways radiate positive currents of... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination. Votes: 3
Robert MullerGoodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Votes: 3
Walter Savage LandorGoodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population. Votes: 3
David PriceAnd Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone Votes: 3
Stephen SchwartzLet our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinI seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies. Votes: 3
Salman RushdieI have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollGoodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality. Votes: 3
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGoodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. Votes: 3
Edwin Hubbel ChapinFor the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. Votes: 3
Bret HarteGoodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. Votes: 3
Harry Allen OverstreetWe are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. Votes: 3
Julian of NorwichMorely: You're trying to make me [i]Amelie[/i] Oliver: Goodness, no. You'd look terrible in a skirt Votes: 3
Rachel CaineTruth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiGoodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad. Votes: 3
Criss JamiMan has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Votes: 2
Billy GrahamThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldOne is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame Votes: 1
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTo be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyWisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareKindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech. Votes: 0
William Kean SeymourGive joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaNo man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. Votes: 0
Frederick William RobertsonHe who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants. Votes: 0
Diane von FurstenbergThose three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth. Votes: 0
Arthur DesmondNeither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines. Votes: 0
Eugene H. PetersonReport followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneSometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness. Votes: 0
Gregory J. BoyleOne's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. Votes: 0
Ken WilberMy only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. Votes: 0
Constance Fenimore WoolsonTruth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink. Votes: 0
Christopher TitusOnly evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneThe measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. Votes: 0
John of RuysbroeckMy goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. Votes: 0
Doc SeverinsenSecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleWikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others. Votes: 0
Daniel H. PinkThank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well. Votes: 0
Edsger DijkstraWhat irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness. Votes: 0
Veronica RothThere can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. Votes: 0
Albert CamusIn the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. Votes: 0
Edward BondGood sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesCommunications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisFor God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead. Votes: 0
Athanasius of AlexandriaVisit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanNever wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Votes: 0
Maurice MaeterlinckMen are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. Votes: 0
William CongrevePeople don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts. Votes: 0
Rachel HolmesThe pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThe cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows. Votes: 0
Danielle LaPorteEvery other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneThank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. Votes: 0
Wojciech JaruzelskiServe the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. Votes: 0
Elsa MaxwellA mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness. Votes: 0
James R. SwartzI believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Votes: 0
Lord MountbattenRaju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films. Votes: 0
Anushka SharmaOnly a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human. Votes: 0
Harold S. KushnerHow lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfGod's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. Votes: 0
J. I. PackerTo an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. Votes: 0
William Least Heat-MoonWisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. Votes: 0
William Dean HowellsBeauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness. Votes: 0
Baldassare CastiglioneForever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. Votes: 0
Thomas SpratYou must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyWe're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. Votes: 0
Madeleine M. KuninEvery man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyYou should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people. Votes: 0
Nadia ComaneciA saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningPlato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. Votes: 0
James Mark BaldwinThe goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeIf we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. Votes: 0
M. Scott PeckSeek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love Votes: 0
Bryant McGillIt's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. Votes: 0
Stephen KingSeek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillWhat is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GoudgeOrder is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriNo one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. Votes: 0
Anne Lamott[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father. Votes: 0
Princess DianaIf we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society Votes: 0
Sakyong MiphamWhat makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaAlong with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me. Votes: 0
Tara BrachThere is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIf goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty? Votes: 0
Lauren BacallI believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters. Votes: 0
Leonard NimoyThough we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTemples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father. Votes: 0
David E. SorensenIn the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. Votes: 0
Clarice LispectorFor Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonLook for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerMornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. Votes: 0
Andy GriffithVery few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Votes: 0
Chelsea Quinn YarbroBecause I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank. Votes: 0
Lydia DavisThe first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. Votes: 0
George EliotThe priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaEvil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireTo count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieAs peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. Votes: 0
John DonneAll of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage Votes: 0
Dennis PragerTo wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. Votes: 0
John WolcotI'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldLove is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living. Votes: 0
Henry Van DykePut together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being. Votes: 0
John de RuiterThere is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. Votes: 0
Thomas a Kempis...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it. Votes: 0
Nicholas Sparks...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness... Votes: 0
John GeddesThe goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerFaith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. Votes: 0
Martin LutherWhen we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness. Votes: 0
Sakyong MiphamMen should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerWhat a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningHis blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS. Votes: 0
Joseph PrinceReligion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. Votes: 0
Edward BondAll the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one. Votes: 0
Charles A. DanaA love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMy goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down. Votes: 0
Bill McLarenI think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same. Votes: 0
Daniel NayeriA charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierTo be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy. Votes: 0
Tim RozonI still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. Votes: 0
Martin SheenMan must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life. Votes: 0
Charlene CostanzoThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Votes: 0
Beatrix PotterI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature. Votes: 0
Vikram SethFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Votes: 0
Thomas MannEvil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial. Votes: 0
James Tiptree Jr.Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being Votes: 0
Adil Adam MemonCelebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness. Votes: 0
Max AndersWhat is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? Votes: 0
Christian HarrisonWe can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. Votes: 0
Edmund GibsonIt reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0
John WatersWe have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. Votes: 0
Philippe StarckAbove all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. Votes: 0
Meir KahaneBut a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God. Votes: 0
John CalvinA day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIf there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherYou may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Votes: 0
Meister EckhartOne thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. Votes: 0
Molly IvinsFor if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserThe world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeGratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker Willis...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichYou are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness. Votes: 0
Griffin JayGratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisOnly the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature. Votes: 0
Anuradha BhattacharyyaRiches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. Votes: 0
HeloiseWhen we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God. Votes: 0
Steve FarrarGod has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIllness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustI learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty. Votes: 0
Matt ChandlerThe ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinDoing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanNo one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness. Votes: 0
Ernest HolmesDo you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness! Votes: 0
Serinda SwanIt is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Votes: 0
Freya StarkIt is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThere was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniI will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune. Votes: 0
Walter RussellWhen we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves. Votes: 0
Beth MooreNow I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. Votes: 0
August StrindbergSome people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisGod is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichBut for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God? Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichNot one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAn appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. Votes: 0
Frederick RolfeWas I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it. Votes: 0
W. C. FieldsWhat you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyFather, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggI will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Votes: 0
Arthur GoldenWe are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it. Votes: 0
Francis SpuffordThe true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama BuddhaNo evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness. Votes: 3 Dorothy Fuldheim
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. Votes: 1 Dennis Potter
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter. Votes: 3 Desmond Tutu
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Votes: 1 Friedrich Nietzsche
Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others. Votes: 5 Pope Francis
What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that. Votes: 1 Roger Ebert
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Votes: 3 Arthur Golden
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. Votes: 1 Frank Harris
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. Votes: 5 Henry Adams
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. Votes: 4 Josephine Hart
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. Votes: 2 John Gray
Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine... Votes: 3 Muse
A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. Votes: 1 Islom Karimov
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life. Votes: 2 Susan Orlean