Word Finder - goodness

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The state or characteristic of being good.

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The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.

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God.

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Thank goodness that the war is over!

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The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.

Thank goodness someone finally settled the name problem.

Thank goodness I was too brainwashed to know it.

For goodness sake, what sort of a being are you?

So, do not be ungrateful, but sing His praises and thank Him for his goodness toward you.

Thank goodness the molar nightmare was over.

But after a minute I answered that beauty was a form of goodness--and he went away.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Moral goodness cannot be limited to, still less constituted by, the cultivation of self-regarding virtues, but consists in the attempt to realize in practice that moral ideal which self-analysis has revealed to us as our ideal.

Goodness, I wouldn't know.

Goodness consists in the knowledge of what these are.

There is continuity in character; the Apostolic Fathers strike us as truly good men, with a goodness raised to a new type and power.

His name was Francis, and because of his goodness, all men now call him St. Francis.

Pierre did not understand what his benefactor was saying, but he knew (the categories of thoughts were also quite distinct in his dream) that he was talking of goodness and the possibility of being what they were.

The lower cannot comprehend the higher, and therefore we must say that the existence of God is above being, above essence; God is above goodness, above wisdom, above truth.

We are reminded of the greatness, the goodness, the righteousness of God as manifested in Nature, in history, and in revelation through the prophets, especially through Mahomet.

Goodness, I haven't heard that name in years!

Such in brief is the Platonism of the written dialogues; where the main doctrine of forms is confessedly advanced never as a dogma but always as a hypothesis, in which there are difficulties, but without which Plato can explain neither being, nor truth nor goodness, because throughout he denies the being of individual things.

You see a reign of goodness and truth on earth, but I don't see it.

Prophecy believes that this world is God's world and that in this world His goodness and truth will yet be vindicated.

His main result is that God is infinite, and as such, incomprehensible; that his attributes of goodness, knowledge and power are credited to him only by inference from their effects; that this inference is logically valid and sufficient for human thought.

She snuggled against his chest, feeling the warm goodness of him.

When, therefore, their goodness is gone, their corruption becomes worse than the corruption of either of the other forms of government.

The divine wisdom and goodness are revealed in the course of nature, but also obscured by it.

It was through possessing somewhat of this Reason that the philosophers attained to any truth and goodness; but in Christians he dwells more fully and guides them through all the perplexities of life.

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

At this point Origen succeeded in avoiding the heretical Gnostic idea of God by assigning to the Godhead the attributes of goodness and righteousness.

You say you can't see a reign of goodness and truth on earth.

M ` Taggart, who closes his acute Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (rigor) with " the possibility of finding, above all knowledge and volition, one all-embracing unity, which is only not true, only not good, because all truth and all goodness are but distorted shadows of its absolute perfection- ` das Unbegreifliche, weil es der Begriff selbst ist.'

Essence participates in goodness - that which is good has being, and is therefore to be regarded as a species of good.

It showed the innate goodness of children.

By a true confession of faith, by every good deed, word and thought, by continually keeping pure his body and his soul, he impairs the power of Satan and strengthens the might of goodness, and establishes a claim for reward upon Ormazd; by a false confession, by every evil deed, word and thought and defilement, he increases the evil and renders service to Satan.

Still more wonderful was Savonarola's influence over children, and their response to his appeals is a proof of the magnetic power of his goodness and purity.

This goodness, therefore, alone exists; matter, motion, growth and decay are figments of the senses; they have no existence for Reason.

Instead of the subtle Catholic theories concerning divine predestination and human freedom, and instead of a difficult theodicaea, it offered an exceedingly simple conception of sin and goodness.

We will have thee, they replied, to govern us according to the laws; for we see in thy countenance that thou art possessed of justice and goodness.

This is apparent to all students of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, the profoundest analysts of their age, the bitterest satirists of its vices, but themselves infected with its incapacity for moral goodness.

His table of springs of actions shows the same mean-spirited omissions that we notice in his predecessors; he measures the quantity of pleasures by the coarsest and most mechanical tests; and he sets up general pleasure as the criterion of moral goodness.

Though quite illiterate, she was an uncommonly shrewd and sensible woman, and her imperturbable good nature under exceptionally difficult circumstances, testifies equally to the soundness of her head and the goodness of her heart.

In the gospel he found a God revealed who is goodness and love, and who desires faith and love from men.

The Stoics not only drew up an elaborate scheme of duties, but also crystallized their theory in a general law, namely that true goodness lies in the knowledge of nature and is obtained by the exercise of Reason.

Theories of legal merit, amount of debt, supererogatory goodness, and ascetic claim - representing the aspect of Catholicism as law - are more and more worked out.

How powerful is the objection from God's goodness against theological voluntarism?

Providence has instilled into the heart of man a sentiment of justice and goodness, of beauty and of truth, that is manifested differently at different times.

He thinks with Berkeley that objects of sight are quite distinct from those of touch, and that the one therefore cannot give any assurance of the other; and he asks the Cartesians to consider how far God's truth and goodness are called in question by their denial of the externality of the secondary qualities.

He asked me how I had taught Helen adjectives and the names of abstract ideas like goodness and happiness.

This leniency on the creditor's part isn't all from the goodness of its heart though.

Herbal tea draws the nutritional and medicinal goodness of herbs into water, providing you with their benefits in a soluble form.

I truly learned to blend colors and apply makeup at 8 years old - thank goodness, it was the 60's and not as much makeup was worn then!

Lastly, it unites musk, black amber and the heady, evergreen goodness of Sequoia.

With just a little effort, you can fill that jar or bottle with home made goodness and turn it into a heart felt gift any foodie would cherish.