goodness

Non-attachment grounded in faith allows good to return to you.

The Israelites in the desert found that hoarded manna rotted. They were permitted no bank accounts and no insurance policies. God is enough. He will be tomorrow who he was today. Later, through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 2:13) God chastises Israel for digging cisterns next to streams of living water, hedging their bets just in case God forgets to be God...or neglects to be good. God is enough. Will he not be tomorrow who he has been today?

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

Be a candle of light in someone__ life this holy season.

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you__l find a light to shine your way through.

When you want the light, it's always there for you to find - Search inside for all the good.

Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

Genuine goodness isn__ discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. _And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. _I think Charles Dickens got it quite right.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody__ lifetime of prayers.