For if He does not care about my being good, why should I care about it?
All other motives for doing good or being good, will fail in one case or another case, because they do not take possession of a man's whole heart, but only of some part of his heart.
Well, if loving God and your neighbour is equivalent to being good, then it follows that not loving God and not loving your neighbour is equivalent to not being good, or to being evil.
You are of opinion that to love God and your neighbour is equivalent to being good, and are evidently very proud of your discovery that there is no distinction between good and evil.
I wrote: “You are of opinion that to love God and your neighbour is equivalent to being good, and are evidently very proud of your discovery that there is no distinction between good and evil.
Further, that which is the greatest good is universally good, as being good of itself: since that which is such of itself is prior to and greater than that which is such accidentally.
Accordingly, that act whereby the will tends to something proposed to it as being good, through being ordained to the end by the reason, is materially an act of the will, but formally an act of the reason.
Evil is never loved except under the aspect of good, that is to say, in so far as it is good in some respect, and is considered as being good simply.
As all other things either are good without being the Good, or are not good, and as the Good has neither the quality of being good, or of not being good, He has nothing, and this is the very thing that constitutes His goodness.
Being the Good Himself, and not simply something good, the Divinity cannot possess anything, not even the quality of being good.
On the other hand, the statement that the Good possesses the quality of being goodis impossible.
I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures.
If you labour to make yourself good in this life, you shall enjoy the fruit of your labour in the next life by being good, and, therefore, blessed for ever.
Therefore for the same reason, to do or say a thing with an oath is more commendable, and consequently oaths are desirable as being good essentially.
Much more, therefore, is synesis a virtue, as being good judgment.
The same may be said of charity, for many are loved as being good, who, nevertheless, are not good.
Being good in a small private way, just as a small private end in itself, may be practicable perhaps without dragging in people who are not quite what they ought to be.
The only really sure way any one can tell when Lim is being good is, that whenever he is being good he becomes suddenly and unexpectedly interesting.
It is true that some people are dazed, and no one can ever seem to feel sure he knows what it is that is going on in Lim when he is being good, or that it is goodness.
But being good, as I see it now, is being good when it isn't easy--and then something more.
Of course," he ran on meditatively, "something depends upon what you mean by being good.
It's being good to others besides yourself," he continued.
His cunning, which had grown out of "being good at a bargain," was employed in a fraud, which was discovered and led to his apprehension.
Seeing the best men disparaged, and the best actions spoken against, many are deterred from doing or being good in a conspicuous and eminent degree.
April 17, being Good Friday, I waited on Johnson, as usual.
There is a similar way of being good, with a goodness which, though limited, is pure and perfect in nature.
The idea of duty has received an expansion almost illimitable, and man himself has thereby attained new worth and dignity--for what is duty except a dignity and opportunity, man's chance of being good?
The poet lifts the moral ideal into infinitude, and removes all limits to the possibility and necessity of being good.
He knew very well Jane Harden was right, when she said Melanctha was always being good to everybody but that that did not make Melanctha any better for her.
Why sure no, yes I do Miss Melanctha, I certainly do believe strong in loving, and in being good to everybody, and trying to understand what they all need, to help them.
But I never want you to be being good Melanctha to me, when it ain't your loving makes you need it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
