Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."
Goodness quotes
Goodness
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Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves."
Luther Campbell
Rapper
"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Badness is only spoiled goodness."
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"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
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"Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness."
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"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."
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"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."
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"What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it."
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"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
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"Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty."
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"Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness."
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"In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom."
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"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness."
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"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."
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"There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it."
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"His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS."
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"He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also."
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"Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?"
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"The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter."
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"This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God."
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"All men are born good."
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"Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it."
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"When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day."
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