God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Taste goodness before you recommend it.
Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. . . . for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.
The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.
Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.
Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.
but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness. . . not our self-perceived badness.
There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.