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1		"The energy that creates individual essence, life and wisdom, and in general makes and sustains created beings, is identical with the divine volitions and the divine participable principles and the gifts of supernal Goodness, the Cause of all." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

2		"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)

3		"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)

4		"Nothing can occur that is not – in the frame of the totality – absolutely good." The Masks of God (Joseph Campbell)

5		"Goodness has power – indeed, ultimate power." The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (Huston Smith)

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		"From the feelings proper to it, humanity's nature is constituted for the practice of what is good." Mencius (372-289 bce), 'Works', bk. 1:6.5-6 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition (John Bartlett)

8		“Having ultimately attained through right thinking, right feeling, and right living to the condition of the beautiful within ourselves, with enraptured vision we can respond in perfect measure to the eternal beauty which flows from the inexhaustible fountain of the one Good.” Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

9		"All things, in the ultimate, work together for GOOD." Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Christian Occult Science (Max Heindel)

10		"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)

11		"The law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man's supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well doing." Jacob Boehme (1571-1624), 'The Confessions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

12		"The original impulses of the heart are always good, so that we may follow them confidently." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

13		"Think good thoughts about what is good by nature, and think well of every man." St. Thalassios the Libyan, 'Third Century' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

14		"God governs all His creatures in goodness." St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Abbess, visionary The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

15		"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)

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

17		"We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion." William Penn One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

18		"The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man: insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures." Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English lawyer and philosopher, 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature' Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (Angela Partington, editor)

19		"Seen in perspective, the world is ultimately benign." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

20		"Love is an inner quality that sees good everywhere and in everybody. It insists that all is good, and by refusing to see anything but good, it tends to cause that quality to appear uppermost in itself and in other things." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

21		"Seek contact with Him now in the goodness and splendour which is in other people." Evelyn Underhill, 'The Letters of Evelyn Underhill' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

22		"Deep down the universe is benign." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

23		"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)

24		“There is nothing in the world without a share of the Beautiful and the Good.” Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

25		"No one ever does wrong knowingly, for it is the very nature of the good that when it is known, it is desired." The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View (Richard Tarnas)