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“No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him.”

Men May Matter Greater Goodness

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.”

Suffering Greater Subjects Goodness Trials Combat Comforting Exaltation

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.”

Ifs Humans God Fall Greater Human Nature Goodness All Things Do The Best Trust Yourself

Book:Hadewijch (CWS)

Source: Hadewijch (CWS)

“Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.”

People Giving Believe Greater Share Pride Goodness Criticism Faults Reproof

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”

World Greater Goodness Rewards Appearance Merit

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.”

Thinking Believe Stills Two Certain Evil Greater Danger Calling Conflict Goodness Worship Ultimate Regard Mere Scripture Doctrine Terrified Flattery Goodness Of God Ultimate Questions

Author:C. S. Lewis

“To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!”

People Thinking May Reason Next Simple Greater Generations Possibility Goodness Ethics Currents Welfare Next Generation Current Generation Good Ethics

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan