#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. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#before #december #did #get #goodness

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#even #everyone #five #goodness #grapes

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fearful #goodness #never #virtue

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses. ↗

— mehmet m

#beauty

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#believe #goodness #human #i #jesus

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#because #blessing #blessings #explain #god

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#another #good #good action #goodness #make

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. ↗

— Jewel

#completely #ever #goodness #innocence #just