Pastoral Resources

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.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.