Highest Good Quotes

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

You hear stories about Scientology, where people are prevented from leaving, and Westboro's not like that. If you decide that you don't want to be there, then they will help you leave. The shunning, cutting people off - they're doing that because they believe it is for our highest good.

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.