“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.”
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
“Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.”
“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.”
“God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.”
“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.”
“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”
“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.”
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”
“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
“When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
“If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”
“It's good to shut up sometimes.”
“Less is only more where more is no good.”
“What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.”
“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”
“That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.”