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1		"In spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already IS well." The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

2		"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

3		"God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good." John Henry Newman (1801-1890), 'Meditations and Devotions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

4		"Thou, Lord, art the supreme good, the eternal good, from Whom is all good, without Whom there is no good." St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), 'Opuscula S. P. Francisci' Pathways of the Inner Life, An Anthology of Christian Spirituality (Georges A. Barrois, editor)

5		"Father, into Thy hands I give the heart which left Thee but to learn how good Thou art." George MacDonald Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

6		"All creatures have a certain good of their own, to the completeness and perfection of their nature." St. Augustine (b.354) The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

7		“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

8		"Contemplate within yourself the implications of Goodwill as they are carried out by a conscious Humanity. Make a plan as to how you may demonstrate Goodwill in your own way in the world." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

9		"If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the good, that is, the divine, in people and things, and leave all the rest to God." Kinship With All Life (J. Allen Boone)

10		"There is something good, for goodness sake, in everyone." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

11		"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

12		"Good is everywhere, ever abiding; and evil, so-called, is the ignorance in ourselves impelling us to violate the patterns for human growth that exist forever in the Infinite Mind." Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine (Manly P. Hall)

13		"The Good is the cause of life, of thought, of being." Plotinus, 'Beauty' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

14		"Whatsoever is good shall no one take unto himself as his own, seeing that it belongs to the Eternal Goodness only." Theologia Germanica, 14th century The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

15		"I see on an immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome." John Burroughs (1837-1921), 'Accepting the Universe' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

16		“The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

17		"All is of God that is, and is to be; and God is good." John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)

18		"The Good is the one thing which is the source of all things, and supplies all things at all times." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

19		"According to each part, both soul and body, the human being was made good by a good God." St. Augustine, 'On Continence' Heaven, A History (Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang)

20		"The world is made up of all kinds of good things, and gives sufficient indication of the great good in store for the one for whom all this was provided." Tertullian (c.150-212), North African church father The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

21		"Do you ask where the Supreme Good dwells? In the soul." Seneca, 'Epistolae ad Lucilium', Epis. 87, 21 Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

22		"We must visualize the highest good we can imagine – peace on earth, brotherhood, a clean environment. For what we together focus on, we will create." Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

23		"All things are administered from above for good." Clement of Alexandria The Holy Fire, the Story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church (Robert Payne)

24		""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)

25		"People need to accept the spiritual freedom, life, and peace that they already possess because their true nature is rooted in the Good." The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Karen L. King)