It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
Gregory MaguireHow good life is when one does something good and just!
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: kindness compassion justice goodness
Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: goodness
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.
Gordon B. HinckleyTag: inspirational goodness character lds mormon
Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.
Joe L. WheelerTag: god faith goodness abraham-lincoln
The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.
C. JoyBell C.Tag: self-acceptance goodness hypocrisy self-awareness mermaid fake wizard genuineness genuine badness siren white-witch
I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..."
He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow.
"There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.
Tag: goodness
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Terry Pratchett[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?"
"Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.
Tag: goodness
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
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