Quotes About Benevolence

There are a great many more good things than bad things to do.

There are who are so pitiful over the poor man, that, finding they cannot lift him beyond the reach of the providence which intends there shall always be the poor on the earth, will do for him nothing at all. Where is the use? they say. They treat their money like their children, and would not send it into a sad house. If they had themselves no joys but their permanent ones, where would the hearts of them be?

He was generous in his charities. He was generous with his family.

He never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.

Kind little words, which are of the same blood as great and holy deeds," flowed from his lips constantly.

never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

I have no parents: I make the heaven and earth my parents. I have no friends: I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.

benevolence once they have nudged against you and invited your aff ection with their smooth, glistening smiles. Rereading Island of the Blue Dolphins, I could

Time is a kindly god.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

a good deed ain't ever forgot.

The Stream, he said, was the ubiquitous power of God that flowed through every being, sentient and nonsentient. To become a Leaf was to ride the current without struggling, to sense the inclination of a benevolent reality and surrender to it, moment by moment.

You must come to see that a man may be self-centered in his self-denial and self-righteous in his self-sacrifice. His generosity may feed his ego and his piety his pride. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and martyrdom becomes spiritual pride.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned...