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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. -- Henry Adams
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. -- John Woolman
Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity. -- Charles Spurgeon
Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God. -- Andy Stanley
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. -- Brennan Manning
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. -- James Mark Baldwin
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God. -- Thomas a Kempis
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God. -- Martin Luther
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need. -- Julian of Norwich
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. -- Lionel Blue
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. -- William Law
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. -- Desmond Tutu
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby. -- John Flavel
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. -- Judah Smith
I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference. -- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant. -- Ann Voskamp
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. -- Daniel Morgan
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. -- Basil Hume
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. -- James Prescott Joule
Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you. -- St. Catherine of Siena
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. -- Charles Spurgeon
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground. -- Brennan Manning
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. -- James E. Faust
Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God. -- Graham Cooke
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty. -- Pope Benedict XVI
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it -- Gerald Priestland
Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sacred and ministerial. To be called into the priesthood, as all of us are, is to be called to a life of presence, of kindness. -- Rachel Held Evans
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest. -- Charles Kingsley
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father. -- John Ortberg
God's glory is His goodness. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Great is the goodness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness. -- Max Lucado
God's goodness is stronger than any evil! -- Pope Francis
Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness. -- William Wilberforce
I am overwhelmed by the goodness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am grateful for all the goodness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Give glory to God. Great is the goodness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal. -- Judah Smith
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God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us. -- Billy Graham
Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind. -- Matthew Henry
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! -- Arthur Miller
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness. -- Joel Osteen
This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God. -- Martin Luther
We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God. -- Erwin McManus
Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy. -- Pope Francis
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead. -- Athanasius of Alexandria
My mind is like clay, but thank goodness God knows how to mold it! -- Mary Kate
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. -- C. S. Lewis
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. -- Benjamin Franklin
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. -- J. I. Packer
Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness. -- Baldassare Castiglione
The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others. -- Elizabeth George
What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew. -- Elizabeth Goudge
No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way. -- Anne Lamott
To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker. -- John Wolcot
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God. -- John Calvin
Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness. -- Max Anders
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God. -- Steve Farrar
God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty. -- Matt Chandler
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. -- Meister Eckhart
Faith doesn't mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God's goodness is greater. -- Matt Chandler
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. -- Julian of Norwich
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. -- John Calvin
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves. -- Beth Moore
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. -- Samuel Clarke
Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance. -- Joel Osteen
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise. -- John Calvin
Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life. -- Craig Groeschel
I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me. -- Wilferd Peterson
Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine. -- Wilferd Peterson
God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. -- William Tyndale
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God? -- Julian of Norwich
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God. -- David Platt
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. -- Kenneth Myers
God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He. -- Julian of Norwich
Living to glorify God means doing everything...for Him,His way,to point to His greatnessand to reflect His goodness." -- Joshua Harris
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. -- Peter Kreeft
Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness. -- Joshua Harris
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people. -- Arthur W. Pink
God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things. -- John Bevere
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips. -- Albert Schweitzer
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. -- Johan Huizinga
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I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects. -- Anne Lamott
The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. -- Charles Spurgeon
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God. -- Timothy Keller
It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin. -- T. B. Joshua
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. -- J.R. Miller
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. -- Thomas Paine
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. -- William Penn
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. -- Bill Johnson
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace. -- John Paul Warren
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. -- Anne Rice
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. -- John of Kronstadt
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. -- Aldous Huxley
Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others. -- Pope Francis
This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all. -- Anne Lamott
God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples. -- David Platt
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all! -- Walter Scott
God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. -- Martin Luther
God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace. -- Sathya Sai Baba
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. -- Spark Matsunaga

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