goodness

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.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

All our good deeds cannot save us.We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

Goodness is grace.

Grace is goodness.

Keep in mind that the reason you know you can be good to others is only because you've taken strides to be better for and to yourself.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. _There's both sweet and sour in every day. _So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? _Concentrate on the good.

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be.

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.