In a word if you tell me you have a personality problem I am not certain until I know you better whether to say ‘Good!’ or ‘I’m sorry.’ It depends on the reasons. And these, it seems, may be good reasons, or they may be good reasons.
— Abraham Maslow
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
— Abraham Maslow
“You would be better off if you got a punch card with 20 punches on it—and every financial decision you made you used up a punch.
You would think a long time before every investment decision. You would make good ones and you’d make big ones.”
“I pray that the Lord may work in us the steadfast desire to do good on the quiet, by stealth, when no one looks on, when not a single disciple is near.”
– Charles Spurgeon
At the creation the morning stars sang together and all the children of God rejoiced. At the birth of Christ the multitude of heavenly hosts raised the jubilee of God’s good will. On the birthday of the church that church itself sings the wonderful works of God in myriad tones.
—Herman Bavinck
A God of infinite goodness and benevolence loves those that have no excellency to move or attract it
—Jonathan Edwards
“If ye love Christ, show it, and show it by doing good to others, by laying yourself out to help others that Jesus may have joy of them.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Just as a good fruit tree produces its fruit and gives it to anyone who passes, so good people are ready to serve anyone they meet simply because they feel joy in service.
—Leo Tolstoy
“The master-motive of a good shepherd is love. We are to feed Christ’s lambs out of love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Never forget the good that people have done for you; tell others about it and try to repay them with good as well.
—Leo Tolstoy
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If we ourselves are good, we shall excite others to goodness. If we do evil, we shall entice others to do evil also. There is a close connection between doing and teaching.
—George Whitefield
I, though hell-deserving, am a living witness of his good providence; having nothing, I possess all things
—George Whitefield
“The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”
– Charles Spurgeon
You cannot advance a single step till you are in some good measure possessed of this comparative indifference to the favour of men.
—William Wilberforce
We should admire the love of Christ to men, that he has thus given himself to be the remedy for all their evil, and fountain of all good.
—Jonathan Edwards
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
A person can live a good life only if he understands that he’s a spiritual being, united with all beings and with Everything. If a person understands himself merely as a physical being, he’ll live only for himself, and someone who lives only for himself cannot live a good life.
—Leo Tolstoy
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
—Sun Tzu
In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Good people will bring you happiness, bad people will reward you with experience, the worst ones will teach you a lesson, and the best ones will give you memories. Appreciate each one.
—Taras Shevchenko