To
make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest
kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right
thing for no other reason than that it is right. - Lesslie Newbigin
How
many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking
trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst
after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not
batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this
or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to
live in it. - George MacDonald
Goodness
conditions usefulness. A grimy hand may do a gracious deed, but a bad heart
cannot. What a man says and what a man is must stand together -- must consist.
His life can ruin his lips or fill them with power. It is what men see that
gives value to what we say. Paul had the right order, "Take heed unto thyself,
and unto the doctrine." Being comes before saying or doing. Well may we pray,
"Search me, O God! Reveal me to myself. Cleanse me from secret faults, that
those who are acquainted with me, who know my down-sittings and my uprisings,
may not see in me the evil way that gives the lie to my words." - Maltbie
Davenport Babcock
Live
for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm
of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the
hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be
forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave
behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars
of heaven. - Thomas Chalmers
Do
all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in
every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as
long as ever you can. - John Wesley
To
make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest
kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right
thing for no other reason than that it is right. - Lesslie Newbigin
How
many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking
trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst
after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not
batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this
or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to
live in it. - George MacDonald
Goodness
conditions usefulness. A grimy hand may do a gracious deed, but a bad heart
cannot. What a man says and what a man is must stand together -- must consist.
His life can ruin his lips or fill them with power. It is what men see that
gives value to what we say. Paul had the right order, "Take heed unto thyself,
and unto the doctrine." Being comes before saying or doing. Well may we pray,
"Search me, O God! Reveal me to myself. Cleanse me from secret faults, that
those who are acquainted with me, who know my down-sittings and my uprisings,
may not see in me the evil way that gives the lie to my words." - Maltbie
Davenport Babcock
Live
for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm
of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the
hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be
forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave
behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars
of heaven. - Thomas Chalmers 
Do
all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in
every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as
long as ever you can. - John Wesley