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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you w... -
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A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends. -
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For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead. -
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. -
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God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil. -
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To seek the highest good is to live well. -
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Badness is only spoiled goodness. -
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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. -
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Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the... -
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. -
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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 goodnes... -
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Nothing shows up my badness like a concerted effort at goodness. -
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How goodness heightens beauty! -
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. -
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil. -
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What is goodness? Goodness is that which works for the benefit or betterment of another. If, as Aquinas said, beauty is that which, when seen, pleases, then goodness is that which, when experienced, b... -
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. -
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. -
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Good people will mirror goodness in us, which is why we love them so much, Not so mature people will mirror their own unlived and confused life unto us, which is why they confuse and confound us so mu... -
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. -
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We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That is the inconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made... -
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. -
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To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighb... -
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Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u... -
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For most of us it takes a long time for the Spirit of freedom to cleanse us of the subtle urges to be admired for our studied goodness. It requires a strong sense of our redeemed selves to pass up the... -
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[The chief aim of Christianity] was to give room for good things to run wild. -
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God exists (Ps. 19:1; Rom. 1:19). 2. God is uncreated (Acts 17:24). 3. God is Creator (Acts 14:15). 4. God is Sustainer (Acts 14:16; 17:25). 5. God is universal Lord (Acts 17:24). 6. God is self-suffi... -
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. -
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God’s goodness is a light that radiates through all his other attributes. It is the reason his omnipotence (possession of all power), omniscience (possession of all knowledge), and sovereignty (posses... -
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The story is told of a little girl who prayed, “Lord, make the bad people good and the good people nice.”
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