Quotes About Benevolence

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

You think God created the world?" he asks me. "Bullshit. Any kind of benevolent and righteous being would never create a fucking world like this. It's impossible. God didn't fucking create the world." Before he walks away completely, he turns back to me one final time, pointing his finger at me. Some people on the beach look over. "Henry," he says, "the Devil created the world when God wasn't looking" He kicks down the little kids' sand castle and goes somewhere with the girls.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. —Hebrews 13:2

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

Whether it was true or not, it eased his heart to think there was something beyond the physical plane, something that felt benevolent toward humans, because the gods knew there wasn't much on the physical plane that felt benevolent toward them.

These scenes,' said Valancourt, at length, 'soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no person, who had felt it once, would resign for the gayest pleasures. They waken our best and purest feelings, disposing us to benevolence, pity, and friendship. Those whom I love — I always seem to love more in such an hour as this.' His voice trembled, and he paused.

Une première fois n'est neuve que de la vérité de son désir que de se vouloir miséricorde et bonté mutuelle, qu'importe une première fois

There are people in the world who aren't necessarily Christians, but they're just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

I'll pray for you. That's very kind of you. I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.

The Grace of God is in courtesy';

You like to help everybody, don't you? I only pretend to.

More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what they have. Past

I firmly believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.