313 quotes found
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to lif...”
“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thi...”
“Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. The obligations of normal human kindness chesed, as the Hebrew has it that we all owe. But...”
“But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.”
“Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it t...”
“Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.”
“Goodness by its nature is lovable and love finds it impossible not to pursue goodness.”
“When goodness is going beyond the limit, Fools think it bad.”
“Remember that everything that is good, whatever its origin, comes from the holy spirit.”
“There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.”
“I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.”
“You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.”
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”
“I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.”
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
“How goodness heightens beauty!”
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
