Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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