Quotes About Goodness And Badness

#1. I guess what I get excited about when I'm thinking about projects is that toothy, complex area of goodness and badness and the gray areas of human behavior and existence.

Liz Garbus

#2. When beauty is defined, illusions of non-beauty manifest
When goodness is identified, badness becomes an option

Lao-Tzu

#3. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.

Mark Batterson

#4. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Mary McCarthy

#6. What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

Anne Revere

#7. As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money ... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

Shahrukh Khan

#8. It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.

Michio Kushi

#9. Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness.

M. Scott Peck

#10. You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches; badness impoverishes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

Robert Penn Warren

#12. But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

Anthony Burgess

#13. All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

Charles A. Dana

#14. As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

Margaret Deland

#15. That day has come. God is now dealing with us in a new way. Our badness is no longer the obstacle to blessing. Nor is our goodness the condition for blessing.

Larry Crabb

#16. Is this how you repay my goodness
with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.

Alex Haley

#17. [Christ's] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

Billy Graham

#18. Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. When we merely say that we are bad, the 'wrath' of God seems a barbarous doctrine; as soon as we perceive our badness, it appears inevitable, a mere corollary from God's goodness. To

C.S. Lewis

#20. The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

Adrian Rogers

#21. The good hate the badness of the wicked. The wicked hate the goodness of the good.

Anonymous

#22. In my family, goodness is just badness before its had something to drink.

Christopher Titus

#23. I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

David Morrissey

#24. In fact, if there was one thing Tabitha had learned from the weekend thus far, it was that people had all sorts of facades about them, covering tucked-away bits of badness and goodness. Fear and courage. Helplessness and hope.

Jessica Lawson

#25. It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

Alex Haley

#26. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#27. God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up.

S. Walden

#29. It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Freya Stark

#30. Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

Bryant McGill

#31. Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;

Hesiod

#32. Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective.

C. JoyBell C.

#33. Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing
its goodness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#34. Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#35. When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness ... not our self-perceived badness.

Tullian Tchividjian

#36. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis

#37. Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C.S. Lewis

#38. Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

L.M. Montgomery

#39. Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

F.H. Bradley

#40. We condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

J. E. Buckrose

#41. Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.

Carol Shields

#42. The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Charles Spurgeon

#43. Badness is only spoiled goodness.

C.S. Lewis