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

2		"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley (1703-1791), 'John Wesley's Rule' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

3		"Everything we do COUNTS. There is really no such thing as a small act of service or goodness. This is in accord with most of the world's spiritual traditions." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss)

4		"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)

5		"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

6		"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good." The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

7		"All things, taken one by one, are good, and all things, taken together, are very good. For our God has made all things very good." Confessions (St. Augustine)

8		"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)

9		"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)

10		"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)

11		"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it." John Ruskin (1819-1909) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)

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

14		"There is something basically good about our existence as human beings. Unless we can discover that ground of goodness in our own lives, we cannot hope to improve the lives of others." Shambhala (Chogyam Trungpa)

15		"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)

16		“Behind visible nature is a Universal Principle of good accomplishing all things through wisdom, strength, and beauty.” Healing: The Divine Art (Manly P. Hall)

17		"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)

18		"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)

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

20		"God deliberately brings about multitude and distinction in order that the divine goodness may be brought forth and shared in many measures. There is beauty in the very diversity." Thomas Aquinas, CT 1, 102 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

21		"The world's Creator is the source of the love that will finally triumph. And the evidence for that living, driving, reasonable expectation is the existence and the force of effective goodness in the world. It does not give up; it does make a difference." In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

22		"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)

23		"Even force which is turned to destructive ends can and does finally work towards good, for the trend of the evolutionary force is unalterable, being based on the Will-to-good of Divinity Itself." The Destiny of the Nations (Alice A. Bailey)

24		"The more the soul fills itself with the true and the good, the wider and the more comprehensive becomes the eternal in it." The Essential Steiner (Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)

25		"There is never an end, as there is never a beginning, to the good which God does: just as the property of light is to illuminate, so the property of God is to do good." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century on Theology' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)