The gospel is gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.
—Herman Bavinck
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
—Pablo Picasso
Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.
—Georg Hegel
It’s good to accustom yourself to doing good deeds that no one will ever know about.
—Leo Tolstoy
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
—Thomas Jefferson
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
—Marcus Aurelius
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
—Marcus Aurelius
Tolerance, to me, does not mean merely tolerance for what I hold to be good, but also tolerance for what I hold to be abominably bad.
—J. Gresham Machen
God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good.
—John Owen
The best is the enemy of good.
—Voltaire
Not just Christ, but all the sages of the world—Brahmins, Buddhists, Taoists, and the Greek sages—taught that rational people repay evil with good, not with evil.
—Leo Tolstoy
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
—Carl Jung
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. – C.S. Lewis
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
—Oscar Wilde
Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.
—Leo Tolstoy
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
—Ernest Hemingway
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
—Plato
It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
—John Milton
A cardinal doctrine of modern liberalism is that the world’s evil may be overcome by the world’s good; no help is thought to be needed from outside the world.
—J. Gresham Machen
The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better, than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon.
—George Whitefield
However any may pretend that they thankfully take notice of God’s goodness, it is a vain pretense if they don’t study to please and honor him.
—Jonathan Edwards
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
—Søren Kierkegaard
“Who knows what is good for us?
God does, and that is better than for us to know.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The surest road to our own happiness is to seek the good of others.”
— Charles Spurgeon
She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart