Goodness Quotes - Page 12

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.