Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.