#goodness

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#ardent #god #goodness #greater #infinite

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#after #coming #compare #event #goodness

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#goodness #justice #reason #springs #wisdom

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ↗

— Herman Melville

#goodness #more #sorrow #than #too

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#around #coming #foreshadowed #goodness #heart

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#college #deal #goes #good #good deal

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#believe #check #consummate #firmly #goodness

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ↗

— Robert Plant

#another #duration #effect #feeling #goodness

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. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #character #courage #else #generosity