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1		"In all that they did, our Indian ancestors acknowledged the goodness of the Creator and of all creation, including themselves." George Tinker, Osage-Lutheran scholar, 'Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation', speech given to the World Council of Churches in Seoul, Korea in 1991 The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought (T. C. McLuhan)

2		"All creation is subject to infinite, unconquerable goodness." The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

3		"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)

4		“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)

5		"Affirm the good that is really there. This is the key to reconciling full engagement with life." Finding Deep Joy (Robert Ellwood)

6		"I believe that the world records everything good and useful that is done in it; it notes and assimilates to itself every movement and every impulse that is fitted to harmonize with its own becoming, of whose real goodness there can be no doubt." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

7		"For as a man cannot live without breathing, even so God cannot exist without making that which is good; and that is life. He is ever at his work, and is himself that which he makes." Libellus XI:17c Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

8		"The Eternal Goodness is ever most graciously guiding and drawing us." Theologia Germanica, 14th century The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

9		"Groups are forming now in their thousands and are to be found in every land, and they will eventually blend and fuse together into one great movement of goodwill, which is spirit in actual expression." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

10		"Moral goodness has its eternal value in itself." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

11		"This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good; To find its meaning is my meat and drink." Robert Browning, 'Fra Lippo Lippi' Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

12		"Morality is generally regarded as a system of actions and relationships that are biologically secondary, less immediate and less physical than material or vital relationships. This is a great mistake. One has only to study, from the point of view of creative union, its role in the evolution of living beings, in order to see how profound is the morphogenic power of the Good." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

13		"Ah! Divine, infinite, sovereign good, which is origin and fulfillment of all good! To your holy goodness, O Lord, I give reverence and honor." Ramon Llull, 'The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men' Ramon Lull and the Secret of Life (Amador Vega)

14		"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)

15		"The love of goodness is the first experience of the natural man, and all spiritual advancement is an extension of the soul's journey through its great distance." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

16		"Through dedication to a good life lived with consideration for our fellow men, we begin the active labor of building an enlightened world." Buddhism and Psychotherapy, The Healing of Heart Doctrine (Manly P. Hall)

17		"Every act of good, no matter how small, helps radiate the Divine throughout the world." Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions (Jeffrey Moses)

18		"A person's true wealth is the good he does in this world." Muhammad The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

19		"Everything which is, is good; and everything which is, is true." Robert Grosseteste (ca.1175-1253), 'On Truth' Selections From Medieval Philosophers (Richard McKeon, editor and translator)

20		"All organized beings, even the very lowest, steer themselves and progress towards that quarter in which the greatest measure of well-being is to be found." Toward the Future (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

21		"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Anne Frank (1929-1945), 'The Diary of a Young Girl', July 15, 1944 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

22		"All good things come to those who live harmlessly." The Unfinished Autobiography (Alice A. Bailey)

23		"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)

24		"Man has the privilege and possesses the possibilities of choosing the good." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

25		"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)

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