Goodness (Greek: agathosune, Latin: bonitas)
See also: Summum bonum- The state or quality of being good
- Moral excellence; virtue;
- Kindly feeling, kindness, generosity
- The best part of anything; Essence; Strength;
- General character recognized in quality or conduct.
Popular English Bibles (e.g. NIV, NASB, NLT) translate the single Greek word chrestotes into two English words: kindness and goodness. "Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power". "For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth", with gathosune being "found only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings, uprightness of heart and life"
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Famous quotes containing the word goodness:
“The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)