Goodnesses Quotes & Sayings

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us - Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass - swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come. — Roger Angell

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor. — Theodore Roosevelt

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. — Charles F. Lummis

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God. — Robert Farrar Capon

Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son. — Horatius Bonar

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. — Joseph Kosinski

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced. — Henry Wallich

Each blade of grass, each little bug, ant, golden bee, knows its way amazingly; being without reason, they witness to the divine mystery, they ceaselessly enact it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky