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1		"The Supreme Good is the centre of universal convergence towards which everything tends." Science and Christ (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

2		"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)

3		"The mind is drawn quite naturally to the ideal of Truth; the heart or our values, is quite naturally drawn to the ideal of Beauty; the guts or will is quite naturally drawn to the ideal of the Good." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture' Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science (Christopher Bamford, editor)

4		"God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good." Sidney Greenberg, author and social commentator, 'Say Yes to Life' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

5		"Just as an apple tree works to produce fruit, so man works to produce good acts." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

6		"The universe is made up of successive gradations of good." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

7		"For nearly two thousand years the first sentence a Chinese child, living in the direct light of Confucius, was taught to read was…'Human beings are by nature good.' We may smile at the undisguised moralizing, but every nation needs it.'" The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

8		"The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

9		"It's important to realize that there's good in everything and everyone." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

10		"Even matter, as a potentiality to good, has the nature of good." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

11		"As Julian of Norwich wrote, all will be well; everything will, at last, be well." In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

12		"According to Wisdom 7:23f., Wisdom is a 'vapour of the power of God and a certain pure emanation of the glory of almighty God…the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.'" Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

13		"He who made me is good, and he is my good. Before him I rejoice for all these goods out of which I had my being even as a child." Confessions (St. Augustine)

14		“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

15		"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)

16		"Everything that is natural is the work of divine creation and is excellent: 'And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.' (Genesis 1:31)." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Fifth Century of Various Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

17		"The goodness of God knows how to use our disordered wishes and actions, often lovingly turning them to our advantage while always preserving the beauty of His order." St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Letters', 90,6 (12th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

18		"We're each part of something that's much bigger and better than what meets the eye, and if we keep that in mind, our hearts will be in the right place. Life will be all right, because its ups and downs will be seen as what they are – threads in a great fabric whose beauty depends on bright and dark colors." Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

19		"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)

20		"There is a truth and a goodness, a redeeming joy in which this world rests." God and The Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution (James Redfield, Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers)

21		"God is infinite Goodness….God is infinite Goodwill." Following the Holy Spirit (Rev. Walter Van DePutte)

22		"Good is found in things not only as regards their substance, but also as regards their order towards an end, which is the divine goodness." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

23		"God's Will is the Will of the Good." The Kingdom of the Shining Ones (Flower A. Newhouse)

24		"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)

25		“Everything we can do for good, however tiny, will not be lost.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)