I choose goodness… I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.
Goodness
Matthew Henry
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
John Eldredge
There is no more devastating blow against evil than when a human being chooses God in the face of suffering, disappointment, unbelief, chronic pain, frustration, abandonment, – before the circumstances change, to get up and proclaim that God is good is a devastating blow to evil.
R C Sproul
God is able to make everything that happens to us work together for our good, then ultimately everything that happens to us is good. We must be careful to stress here the word ultimately. On the earthly plane things that happen to us may indeed be evil. (We must be careful not to call good, evil or evil, good.) We encounter affliction, misery, injustice, and a host of other evils. Yet God in His goodness transcends all of these things and works them to our good. For the Christian, ultimately, there are no tragedies. Ultimately, the providence of God works all these proximate evils for our final benefit.