No howls of protest from me, LogicWings; for you have basically defined the entire idea of goodness – as divinely intended – in the foregoing statement.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? -Mark 8:36
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:2