Quotes About Benevolence

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.

I have grown calm and unrepining with years; and, if I am now shrinking from men, I have derived at least this advantage from the loneliness first made habitual by regret; that while I feel increased benevolence to others, I have learned to look for happiness only in myself.

If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.

Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.

Kind people are the best kind of people.

Rich in good works.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

And here is a second quality of love—its gratuitousness.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.

Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

But charity begins surely with the char!

Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.

The mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words, they were always friendly, merry words that put heart into one...Sara--who was only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else, Nature having made her for a giver--had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed.

Trebuie s? te gândeÈ™ti totdeauna la oamenii care îÈ›i fac bine.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.