Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
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.
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat. , Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando. ]
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.
Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.
Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.