#goodness

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#crusades #equality #goodness #openmindedness #religion

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#gracefulness #true #which

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bible #god #goodness #jesus #just

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#goodness #his #love #man #over

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 ↗

— Kent M. Keith

#goodness #happiness #honesty #kindness #misattributed-to-mother-teresa

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine. ↗

— Anne Rice

#life