We must believe that God is love & that, being love, He cannot harm us but must ever do us good. Then we must throw ourselves before Him & pray with boldness for whatever we know our good & His glory require, and the cost is no object!
—AW Tozer
The wise Christian will watch for opportunities to do good, to speak the life-bringing word to sinners, to pray the rescuing prayer of intercession.
—AW Tozer
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
—Marcus Aurelius
God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.
—Herman Bavinck
Gratitude. It is impossible to be too thankful to God, but it might be good to try it.
—AW Tozer
Gratitude and joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
—Herman Bavinck
At the creation the morning stars sang, and all the children of God shouted with joy. At the birth of Christ a multitude of heavenly hosts raised a song of jubilation to God’s good pleasure.
—Herman Bavinck
For when the sense of religion diminishes, the notion of good and evil is erased, the sense of responsibility and guilt is suppressed, so that passion and lust have free rein and the wickedness of the heart breaks forth openly in the form of shameless evil acts.
—Herman Bavinck
Through the infinite goodness of God, I felt what I spoke; he enabled me to treat on divine truth with uncommon clearness: and yet I was so sensible of my defects in preaching, that I could not be proud of my performance, as at some times; and blessed be the Lord for this mercy.
—David Brainerd
O that I may never distrust infinite goodness!
—David Brainerd
O the wonderful goodness of God to so vile a sinner!
—David Brainerd
This, through grace, I can say at present, with regard to life or death, ‘The Lord do with me as seems good in his sight;’ that whether I live or die, I may glorify him, who is ‘worthy to receive blessing, and honour, and dominion for ever. Amen.’
—David Brainerd
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
—Isaac Newton
Still good advice (whether pocket Bibles or phones):
In everyone’s life many minutes each day are lost, waiting for meals, riding on trains, etc. … Carry a pocket Bible with you, and save those golden moments by putting them to the very best use, listening to the voice of God.
—R. A. Torrey
If God be a God of so much mercy, how can I abuse so good a God? Shall I take so glorious an attribute as the mercy of God is and abuse it unto sin?
—John Flavel
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
The upright soul hates sin in himself more than he hates it in any other, as a man hates a serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosom: But I see another law in my members…I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (Rom. 7:23, 21).
—John Flavel
Thank God, I can proclaim the good news that Christ can deliver us from all our sins, and I don’t care if you are bound hand and foot with sin, if you only come to him, he will save you.
—D. L. Moody
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Augustine
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The Bible is not only good but better than the best of treasure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
—Charles Dickens
God is to be praised for his goodness.
—Jonathan Edwards
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
—Thomas Edison
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Whoever wants to be useful, even with bound hands can do a lot of good.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. – C.S. Lewis
Every time you wake up ask yourself: what good shall I accomplish today?
—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