Good

"I taught I had to be good to walk with God. And God said, “My grace is what you need to walk with me, than you will be good."

"The capacity to love is determined by the fact that man is ready to seek the good consciously with others, to subordinate himself to this good because of others, or to subordinate himself to others because of this good."

"The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or not. As this reality in Christ it is to be addressed, and thus the false reality that it imagines itself to have, in itself or in the devil, is to be destroyed. The dark, evil world may not be surrendered to the devil, but must be claimed for the one who won it by coming in the flesh, by the death and resurrection of Christ."

"I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too."

"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."

"Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of)."

"The most beautiful things often stand alone."

"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."

"For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive."

"What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful."

"Good people are always beautiful."

"Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means"What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!"Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days,"

"If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?"

"I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful."

"There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better."

"Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation."

"I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level."

"Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good."

"If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside."

"If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start."