We’ve all heard the phrase, “God is good.” However, have you pondered the goodness of God? Have you ever thought about the fact that His goodness never ends? Are you growing in your view of His goodness? Ask yourself these questions. Also, I encourage you to read these quotes about the goodness of God and meditate on the Lord. Relinquish control and rest in His sovereignty and goodness in your life.
God is the standard of what is good
Goodness comes from God. We would not know goodness and there would be no goodness without the Lord. The Lord is the standard of all that is good. Do you see the goodness of the Lord in the “Good News”?
God came down in the form of man to live the perfect life that we could not. Jesus, who is God in flesh, walked in complete obedience to the Father. In love, He took our place on the cross. He thought of you while being bruised and battered. He thought of you as He hung bloody on a cross. Jesus died, was buried, and was resurrected for our sins. He defeated sin and death and is the bridge between us and the Father. We can now know and enjoy the Lord. There is now nothing impeding us from experiencing the Lord.
The Christian through faith in the good and perfect work of Christ alone, is forgiven and justified before God. Christ redeemed us from the punishment of sin, and He has made us a new creature with new desires and affections for Him. Our response to the gospel of redeeming grace should be thankfulness. Christians want to praise the Lord and live a lifestyle pleasing to the Lord. The good that we do is from the Holy Spirit residing in us. God’s goodness changes everything about us. Have you experienced the goodness of God found in the gospel?
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis
“What is “good?” “Good” is what God approves. We may ask then, why is what God approves good? We must answer, “Because He approves it.” That is to say, there is no higher standard of goodness than God’s own character and His approval of whatever is consistent with that character.” Wayne Grudem
“Remember that goodness is in God’s character.”
God’s goodness is that He is the perfect sum, source, and standard (for Himself and His creatures) of that which is wholesome (conducive to well-being), virtuous, beneficial, and beautiful. John MacArthur
“God and all attributes of God are eternal.”
“The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.” George Müller
“God’s goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.” — William Tyndale
“Sum up the life of Jesus by any other standard than God’s, and it is an anticlimax of failure.” Oswald Chambers
“God cannot be comprehended by us, except as far as he accommodates himself to our standard.” John Calvin
“For God is good – or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”
“God has never stopped being good, we’ve just stop being grateful.”
“When God balances the scales morally, it is not some standard outside Himself He looks at and then determines whether this is right or wrong. But rather it’s His very nature, it is His very character and nature that is the standard by which He judges.” Josh McDowell
God is good all the time quotes
Look for God’s goodness when things are going well and in hard times. When we set our focus on Christ and rest in Him, we can experience joy in suffering. There is always something to praise the Lord for. Let’s create a culture of praise and worship in our lives.
“Every time you think you’re being rejected God’s actually redirecting you to something better. Ask him to give you the strength to press forward.” Nick Vujicic
“Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.” Sam Storms
“Let Him therefore send and do what He will. By His grace, if we are His, we will face it, bow to it, accept it, and give thanks for it. God’s Providence is always executed in the ‘wisest manner’ possible. We are often unable to see and understand the reasons and causes for specific events in our lives, in the lives of others, or in the history of the world. But our lack of understanding does not prevent us from believing God.” Don Fortner
“Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God” – Sam Storms
“Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.”
“Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.” Charles Spurgeon
“God is good to me, even when life doesn’t feel good to me.” Lysa TerKeurst
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.” — Simone Weil
“In the movie of life, nothing matters except our King and God. Don’t let yourself forget. Soak it in and keep remembering that it is true. He is everything.” Francis Chan
“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.” Peter Marshall
“The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.” Matthew Henry
“That is exactly what discontentment is – a questioning of the goodness of God.” – Jerry Bridges
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” Helen Keller
“Life is good because God is great.”
“For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil.” Augustine
“God is good, not because of the wonderful, but the other way around. The wonderful is, because God is good.”
“Joy in God in the midst of suffering makes the worth of God – the all-satisfying glory of God – shine more brightly than it would through our joy at any other time. Sunshine happiness signals the value of sunshine. But happiness in suffering signals the value of God. Suffering and hardship joyfully accepted in the path of obedience to Christ show the supremacy of Christ more than all our faithfulness in fair day.” John Piper
“See the beauty and power of God in everything.”
“Life with God Isn’t Immunity from Difficulties, but Peace Within Difficulties.” C.S. Lewis
“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.” Augustine
“Every time you think you’re being rejected God’s actually redirecting you to something better. Ask him to give you the strength to press forward.” Nick Vujicic
“Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.” A.B. Simpson
“Thankfully, joy is an all-season response to life. Even in the dark times, sorrow enlarges the capacity of the heart for joy. Like a diamond against black velvet, true spiritual joy shines brightest against the darkness of trials, tragedies and testing.” Richard Mayhue
God’s good nature
Everything about God’s nature is good. Everything that we praise the Lord for is good. Consider His holiness, His love, His mercy, His sovereignty, and His faithfulness. I encourage you to grow in your knowledge of God. Grow in your intimacy of Him and get to know His character. As we get to know the character of God and have a deeper understanding of His character, then our trust and faith in the Lord will grow.
“The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.” William Barclay
“The love of God is not created- it is His nature.” Oswald Chambers
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Saint Augustine
“Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.” — Billy Graham
“God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.”
“The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.” Aiden Wilson Tozer
“This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.” Martin Luther
“God’s goodness is the root of all goodness.” – William Tyndale
“God’s love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.” J. I. Packer
“Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.” – John Piper
“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.” — D.L. Moody
“Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.” John Flavel
“There would be no manifestation of God’s grace or true goodness, if there was no sin to be pardoned, no misery to be saved from.” Jonathan Edwards
“God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Life is good because God is great!”
“Grace is God’s best idea. His decision to ravage a people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly – what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus.” Max Lucado
“God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.”
“The character of God is the basis for our connection to him, not our intrinsic worth. Self-worth, or anything we think would make us acceptable to God, would suit our pride but it has the disturbing side-effect of making the cross of Jesus Christ less valuable. If we have worth in ourselves, there is no reason to connect to the infinite worth of Jesus and receive what he has done for us.” Edward T. Welch
“The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.” Matt Chandler
“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.” -Brennan Manning.
“All God’s giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God’s faithfulness.” Hudson Taylor
“God’s faithfulness means that God will always do what He said and fulfill what He has promised.” Wayne Grudem
“God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.” Max Lucado
“There is nothing but God’s grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.”
“If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?” Saint Augustine
“It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.” John Calvin
“The glory of God’s faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.” Charles Spurgeon
“A man does not get grace till he comes down to the ground, till he sees he needs grace. When a man stoops to the dust and acknowledges that he needs mercy, then it is that the Lord will give him grace.” Dwight L. Moody
“God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.” ~ Billy Graham
“God is good all the time. Every time!”
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.” Frederick Buechner
“We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.” — Saint Augustine
“A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.” David Platt
“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.” Charles Spurgeon
“This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.” Martin Luther
“God is good all the time. He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
“Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God’s sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust.” Jerry Bridges
“God’s wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.” — Wayne Grudem
“Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God’s faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.” David Wilkerson
God is good Bible verses
The Bible has a lot to say about the goodness of God.
Genesis 1:18 (NASB) “and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.”
Psalm 73:28 “But as for me, how good is it to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.”
James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
Luke 18:19 (ESV) “And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Psalm 33:5 “The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.”
Psalm 100:5 “teaches us God’s goodness extends from His nature and through all generations, “The LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations”
Psalm 34:8 “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
1 Peter 2:3 “now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
Psalm 84:11 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
Hebrews 6:5 “who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age.”
Genesis 50:20 (KJV) “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
Psalm 119:68 “You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.”
Psalm 25:8 “Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.”
Genesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”
Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Psalm 27:13 “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
Exodus 34:6 (NIV) “And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”
Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knows those who trust in Him.”
Psalm 135:3 “Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.”
Psalm 107:1 “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”
Psalm 69:16 (NKJV) “Hear me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.”
1 Chronicles 16:34 “Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”
Conclusion
I encourage you to do what Psalm 34:8 says. “Taste and see that the LORD is good.”
