To rid ourselves of our shadows — who we are — we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ~ Richard Le Gallienne
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. ~ Menander
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. ~ Antonio Porchia
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ~ Abu Bakr
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ~ Anne Rice
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ~ E. M. Forster
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. ~ Thornton T. Munger
It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ~ Stephen King
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ~ Xun Zi
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
God’s willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God’s ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil. ~ E.M. Bounds
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ~ Anne Rice
