Quotes About Benevolence

If I can aid one in distress, If I can make a burden less, If I can spread more happiness, Lord, show me how.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.   Ã¢â'¬â€Seneca

Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country, said the statesman. Where might you have read this? asked the Professor Antiquitatum. The good auctor Blefken says this. I wonder if the good auctor might not have misread his sources, said Arnaeus. The best auctores tell us that Icelandic girls remain chaste virgins up until they've had their seventh child, Your Benevolence.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

The best thing you can do for yourself, is to do good to others.

The good attracts the good.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.

Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

a gent gets his reward when he sees other people happy. As