Top 25 Goodness Quotes of 442 - Page 10

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

Littles, Goodness, Pregnant

Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Thinking, Goodness, Ill

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.227

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

John Greenleaf Whittier

May, Goodness, Grain

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.99

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

John Calvin

Faithful, Mercy, Goodness

"Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 45), December 1, 2004.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

J. G. Holland

Men, Goodness, Thrive

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Isaac Barrow

May, Goodness, Be Good

Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378

Evil is only good perverted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil, Literature, Goodness

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.370

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Realizing, Goodness

"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

George Eliot

Age, Reason, Goodness

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.607, ShandonPress

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Might, Diligence, Goodness

Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.253

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Goodness

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Want, Goodness

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Franz Kafka

Literature, Goodness, Certain

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.

Ernest Holmes

Soul, Spirit, Goodness

Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.17, The Floating Press

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Want, Neighbor, Goodness

"Selected Writings".

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

Desmond Tutu

Believe, Deeds, Goodness

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Confucius

Wise, Goodness, Select

"The Analects". Book by Confucius,

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

Claude Monet

Next Day, One Day, Goodness

Claude Monet, Centre culturel du Marais (1983). “Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny”, Rizzoli International Publications

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Charles Kingsley

Men, Holy, Goodness

Charles Kingsley (1874). “David: Five Sermons”, p.12

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

C. S. Lewis

Taste, Moments, Goodness

"Selected Literary Essays".

I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.

Byron Katie

Mind, Goodness, Given

"Byron Katie Spiritual Leader. Story UNteller. Ambassador of Inner Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.awaken.com. September 30, 2013.