Quotes About Benevolence

I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on.

Good things happen to good people.

You dont need a thousand dollars to do something good for someone, You just need the right intention for it

Let all that you do be done in love.

To love is to will the good of the other.

Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.

To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives. My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments. Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.

As a boy, Jimmy sent a nickel every week to Baptist missionaries building hospitals and schools in China.

In short, were a man to "give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned," out of zeal to promote some public good, yet without love to God, without benevolent attachment to universal being, he is morally nothing, or worse than nothing.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

The blessed and indestructible being of the divine has no concerns of its own, nor does it make trouble for others. It is not affected by feelings of anger or benevolence, because these are found where there is lack of strength.

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

The term "noblesse oblige"—the idea that those who have been blessed with much are to use it to help those who have not been so blessed—would not be coined for another half-century, and Wilberforce had yet to discover the relevance of any such idea to his own life.

Strange that the most generous men and religious, do not see that their duties increase with their fortune, and that they will be punished for spending it" on themselves in eating and drinking.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.