#goodness

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#good #goodness #holiness #holy #life

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #goodness #safety #security #security

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the name of love and goodness. Hence, in order to reduce hate and evil we need to be aware of love and goodness, rather than hate and evil. ↗

— Franco Santoro

#goodness #hate #love #love

The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteem nothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practice virtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is not virtuous to approach his person. "Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient. "Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it. ↗

— Confucius

#strength-of-character #love

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#blessings #flowers #goodness #hope #inspirational

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#good #goodness #higher-power #human #humanity

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#goodness #inspiration #letting-go #life #love

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself. ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#evil #goodness #men

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good-intentions #goodness #men

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #goodness #hope #inspiration #inspirational