Pastoral Resources

How goodness heightens beauty!

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

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.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

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

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.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

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

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

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

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.