Pastoral Resources

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

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.

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.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

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.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.