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 BellowAlways radiate positive currents of... Light, Goodness, Love, Kindness, Hope and Determination. Votes: 3
Robert MullerGoodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Votes: 3
Matthew HenryGoodness 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 DostoevskyKindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech. Votes: 0
William Kean SeymourWisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareGive 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 DesmondOne's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. Votes: 0
Ken WilberSometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness. Votes: 0
Gregory J. BoyleNeither 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 MontaigneThe measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. Votes: 0
John of RuysbroeckCommunications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisWikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others. Votes: 0
Daniel H. PinkMy 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 CarlyleConfidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneThank 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 RothIn 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 SmilesThere can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. Votes: 0
Albert CamusMy only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same. Votes: 0
Constance Fenimore WoolsonIn 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 AmielTruth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonRaju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films. Votes: 0
Anushka SharmaThank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. Votes: 0
Wojciech JaruzelskiEvery other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneServe 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 MountbattenVisit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanOnly 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 WoolfThe cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows. Votes: 0
Danielle LaPorteTo 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 ComaneciGod's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. Votes: 0
J. I. PackerFor God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead. Votes: 0
Athanasius of AlexandriaThe pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinPeople don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts. Votes: 0
Rachel HolmesNever 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 CongreveIn the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. Votes: 0
Clarice LispectorI believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters. Votes: 0
Leonard NimoyFor Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonIf goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty? Votes: 0
Lauren BacallTemples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father. Votes: 0
David E. SorensenLook for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerThere is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareSeek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillA saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningMornin' 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 BaudelairePlato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. Votes: 0
James Mark BaldwinThough we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeOrder is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriIf we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer. Votes: 0
M. Scott PeckWhat is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GoudgeAlong with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me. Votes: 0
Tara BrachSeek 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 KingNo 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 VivekanandaFaith 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 PrinceAs peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. Votes: 0
John DonneReligion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. Votes: 0
Edward BondAll of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage Votes: 0
Dennis PragerTo count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieThere are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. Votes: 0
John WolcotPut together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being. Votes: 0
John de RuiterLove is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living. Votes: 0
Henry Van DykeThe goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerThere is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. Votes: 0
Thomas a KempisI'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness. Votes: 0
Rick Warren...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 GeddesAll the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one. Votes: 0
Charles A. DanaMy goodness, that wee ball's gone so high there'll be snow on it when it comes down. Votes: 0
Bill McLarenWhat 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 GibsonI still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. Votes: 0
Martin SheenI think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same. Votes: 0
Daniel NayeriIt reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0
John WatersBut a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God. Votes: 0
John CalvinAbove all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. Votes: 0
Meir KahaneWe have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. Votes: 0
Philippe StarckCelebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness. Votes: 0
Max AndersOften expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being Votes: 0
Adil Adam MemonI think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature. Votes: 0
Vikram SethA love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierMan must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanEvil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial. Votes: 0
James Tiptree Jr.To be honest I'm the only one really who's a cowboy. Like an honest to goodness cowboy. Votes: 0
Tim RozonThe fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life. Votes: 0
Charlene CostanzoFor the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. Votes: 0
Thomas MannThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Votes: 0
Beatrix PotterThe 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 ildanI learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty. Votes: 0
Matt ChandlerOnly the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature. Votes: 0
Anuradha Bhattacharyya...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichFor if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserOne thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. Votes: 0
Molly IvinsYou are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness. Votes: 0
Griffin JayThe world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeRiches 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 FarrarYou may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Votes: 0
Meister EckhartGratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisIf there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherA day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanGratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisGod 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 ProustDo you know how hard it is to play a character where youre always in heels? Oh, my goodness! Votes: 0
Serinda SwanI 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 MooreNo one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness. Votes: 0
Ernest HolmesIt is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Votes: 0
Freya StarkThere was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniIt is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerNow 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. LewisAn 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 BeggNot one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBut for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God? Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichGod is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichI will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Votes: 0
Arthur GoldenThe true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama Buddha