| 1662 | A new concept of God as unswerving goodness emerges from Socrates' commitment to virtue [Vlastos on Socrates] |
| 2058 | God must be the epitome of goodness, and we can only approach a divine state by being as good as possible [Plato] |
| 6291 | No one is good except God [Jesus] |
| 8140 | God is love [John] |
| 8141 | He that does evil has not seen God [John] |
| 5757 | God is the supreme good, so no source of goodness could take precedence over God [Boethius] |
| 5758 | God is the good [Boethius] |
| 4825 | To say that God promotes what is good is false, as it sets up a goal beyond God [Spinoza] |
| 6250 | We say God is good if we think everything he does aims at the happiness of his creatures [Hutcheson] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |
| 23754 | The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil [Weil] |
| 22345 | Moral philosophy needs a central concept with all the traditional attributes of God [Murdoch] |
| 20702 | The goodness of God may be a higher form than the goodness of moral agents [Davies,B] |