Goodness

Famous quotes containing the word goodness:

“It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Great is your faithfulness, O God, Creator,
with you no shadow of turning we see.
You do not change, your compassions they fail not;
all of your goodness forever will be.”
—Thomas O. Chisholm (1866–1960)

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it,—else it is none.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)