goodness

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goodness. See also truth, beauty, and goodness
all things work together for good (4:1.4,11) (10:7.5-6) (48:4.7) (54:4.7) (67:7.8) (67:8.4) (94:6.4) (118:10.18) (182:2.1). See also providence
and evil (4:2.6) (130:1.5-6) (132:2sec) (159:5.10)
attempted service of g. no substitute for religious experience (196:3.23)
basing life on highest consciousness of (110:3.7)
cannot come of evil to evildoer (54:4.7)
concept not inherent in physics (195:6.11)
defined as
carrying out divine plans (75:4.3)
finite maximum of experience (102:3.15) (117:1.7)
fruit of the spirit (34:6.13) (193:2.2)
health of the soul (98:2.6)
living, relative, evil-contrasted, always a personal experience (132:2.3-7)
man’s effort to discern God in spirit (56:10.2)
nearness to divinity (3:6.2) (56:10.12)
revelation of Deity, infinite values (56:10.9-10)
shown in loving ministry of Father, Son, Spirit (56:10.17-18)
stabilizing (2:7.12)
understandable only in relation to personality (1:7.3)
value-realization of God-consciousness (111:3.7)
divinity comprehensible as (0:1.17)
goodness of God (2:6sec)
beneficence to the righteous and the wicked (131:5.2)
beyond man’s comprehension (4:3.6)
found only in personal religious experience (2:6.1)
greatest evidence is indwelling Adjuster (2:5.5)
leads men into repentance (2:6.3) (48:6.8) (131:10.4) (143:2.7) (149:6.4)
indiscriminate kindness causes many social evils (140:8.13)
Jesus exalted g. by commanding performance (127:4.2)
Jesus went about doing good (100:7.8) (159:5.10) (171:7.9)
man’s understanding of g. only relatively true (115:1.2)
more a quest than a possession (132:2.8)
nature of goodness
act is potent in proportion to divinity of motivation (48:6.7)
nature of goodness
all g. takes origin in Father (8:2.7)
become good through grace (28:6.22)
blesses everything, harms nothing; seeks lowest places (131:8.3)
cannot be divorced from greatness (28:6.21) (56:10.12) (100:7.17)
destroys evil (188:5.2)
g. may be derived from time-limited evil (54:6.6-10)
highest forms of g. are unconscious (140:8.26) (170:3.9)
human likes and dislikes do not determine g. (100:3.2)
no good act ever wholly lost (48:6.7)
understandable by contrast with evil (4:3.6)
unified with beauty, truth, righteousness (44:7.2-4)
when devoid of grace, g. often repels (171:7.2)
none is good but God (196:0.9) (196:2.2)
return good for evil (140:3.15) (140:6.9)
sincere pursuit of g. leads to God (195:6.17)

Cross-references

See also truth, beauty, and goodness
See also providence

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