Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
—Sun Tzu
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
—Laozi
Never put off a good deed if you can do it now, because death doesn’t take into account whether you’ve done what you should have or not.
—Leo Tolstoy
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
—Laozi
The only good human being is a dead one.
—George Orwell
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
—George Orwell
It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.
—George Whitefield
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
—Sigmund Freud
“Our best performances are so stained with sin that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If we rest in Christ’s atoning work we shall do good works, but they will be the outcome of being saved and the outcome of believing on Christ as our sin-bearer. Our good works will not be the ground of our salvation, but the result of our salvation and the proof of it. 2/2
—R. A. Torrey
We must be very careful not to mix in our good works at all as the ground of salvation. We are not forgiven because of Christ’s death and our good works, we are forgiven solely because of Christ’s death. 1/2
—R. A. Torrey
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
“We delight to feel that he who has ruled all things for our good does not change.”
— Chalres Spurgeon
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
—Miyamoto Musashi
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.
—John Owen
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
—Pablo Picasso
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
—Voltaire
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
Surely, dear Sir, the love of CHRIST must constrain us to spend and be spent for the good of souls.
—George Whitefield
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
—Voltaire
“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Seeing among the gloomy people an open pleasant smile addressed to you, you begin to understand that everything is not so bad in this world, there is a lot of good ahead of you.
—Taras Shevchenko
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
—Pablo Picasso
“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.
—D. L. Moody
I do not believe that there is any true revival that is not brought about by a good deal of prayer.
—D. L. Moody
See how our LORD’s sheep are scattered abroad, having too, too few true shepherds; I beseech you, go on, and point out to them the Redeemer’s good pastures.
—George Whitefield
But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
—John Milton