Quotes on Be Good

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

In fact we say that an intention is good, that is, right in itself, but that an action does not bear any good in itself but proceeds from a good intention. Whence when the same thing is done by the same man at different times, by the diversity of his intention, however, his action is now said to be good, now bad.