GOOD
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"We are the Good beholding Itself everywhere, because the life we are is the life divine."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"Always look for the good in each person, situation, or thing. It resides at the core level."
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"Peace must be based on an educated goodwill, which will lead inevitably to right human relations, and, therefore, to the establishment (figuratively speaking) of lines of light between nation and nation, religion and religion, group and group."
The Reappearance of the Christ
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The urge-to-good pervades every aspect of the planetary Life from the smallest atom of substance, through all the intermediate living forms, on and up to the Logos Himself."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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""The characteristic note of all goodness is its desirability; its demand is for love, which is no more than the recognition of the heart-filling character of goodness."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"In the view of every wisdom tradition, the essence of the universe is love and light and goodness. Our grand purpose is to awaken to our essential nature, which is the very same love and light and goodness."
Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide
(Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)
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"The Law of the Universe…is to all eternity the good of the whole and naught can arrest this happening."
Esoteric Astrology
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"When a man constantly does good he becomes a centre of harmonious vibrations which, enjoyed by the people around him, naturally create warmth and love in their hearts."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi On The Bhagavad-Gita
(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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"Through the ages, the wise and thoughtful among us have said that there is good in everything and everyone if we just take the time to look for it."
Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles
(John Marks Templeton)
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"Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in everybody. It insists that all is good, and by refusing to see anything but good, it tends to cause that quality to appear uppermost in itself and in other things."
Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles
(John Marks Templeton)
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"The child looks out to the world for its instruction. The adult turns within and struggles there until, when the Divine Child is found, he looks outward again in new and constant anticipation of Good."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"There is nothing that does not share in goodness and beauty. Each thing is good and beautiful by its proper form. Everything images the divine goodness in its way." Thomas Aquinas, DDN, n. 355, p. 115
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Love is the movement, effusion and advancement of the heart toward the good." St. Francis deSales, 'Treatise on the Love of God' (17th century)
The Book of Catholic Quotations
(John Chapin, Editor)
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"The best way to see truly is to begin determinedly to look always for the good in every one."
The Inner Life
(Charles W. Leadbeater)
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"Nothing hinders anything from sharing in the Good to the extent it is able." Plotinus, 'The Descent of the Soul'
The Essential Plotinus
(Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)
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"Each one vaguely apprehends a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore to attain unto it each doth strive." Dante, 'Purgatorio', xvii. 127-129
Dante and the Mystics
(Edmund G. Gardner)
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"It is only when we human beings fully acknowledge that we are good precisely as God made us that we can relate properly to the Creator."
Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master
(Robert Barron)
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"To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
(Manly P. Hall)
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"The principal good in things themselves is the perfection of the universe."
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Anton C. Pegis, editor)
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"Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good is That at which all things aim." Aristotle (384-322bc), 'Nicomachean Ethics', bk. 1, 1094b 6-7
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition
(Angela Partington, editor)
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"Humans are inclined to do good."
Introduction to Theology
(Thomas P. Rausch, editor)
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"There is only one way for a man to be true to himself. If he does not know what is good, a man cannot be true to himself." Confucius (551-479 bce), Chinese sage, 'The Doctrine of Mean'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"God governs all His creatures in goodness." St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Abbess, visionary
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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"The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man: insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures." Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English lawyer and philosopher, 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition
(Angela Partington, editor)
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"I look for the Good that is present. I expect to see it and then I see it! If this is too simple, I'm sorry; it is just that easy."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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