#goodness

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war? ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god #goodness #morality #faith

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#love #love

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. ↗

— Adam Smith

#goodness #nature

We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#oneness #seneca #nature

Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na afirmação da vida, na repulsa à destruição, à perversidade, ao uso e abuso do homem pelo homem. Era a afirmação do humano e do natural. ↗

— Anne Rice

#goodness #nature

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#goodness #religion #religion

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#christianity #christians #devout #devouts #goodness

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself. ↗

— John Paul II

#catholicism #god #goodness #religion #truth

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. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

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

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#another #elicit #good #good person #goodness