Quotes About Benevolence

How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest?

sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life's pain.

24Generosity brings prosperity, but withholding from charity brings poverty.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

the king of kind hearts and polite fellows

si bien el hombre ama a su prójimo, es un animal que también ama el dinero y esta tendencia interfiere muchas veces con su benevolencia

Stick to the boat, Pip, or by the Lord, I won't pick you up if you jump; mind that. We can't afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and don't jump any more. Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again.

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

What we give to the poor, we lend to God.

This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic … a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority." The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister … all the way up to "God.

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

The end of the world is announced with a kind word.

Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest

had rather save the life of one innocent citizen than take the lives of a thousand enemies," Antoninus had remarked. He had none of Hadrian's restlessness or brooding nature; he was known for a placid temperament and a gentle sense of humor. Under his benevolent rule, the bitterness that had marked the end of Hadrian's reign had almost faded from memory.

The child was my little seed. As had been promised in the ritual, I would haunt her to womanhood. I would nurture and strengthen her powers from afar. She would flourish within the caul of my benevolence.

The most beautiful hara do not have to be cruel or mean or jealous. It is in them to be courteous and kind. Why be otherwise when the world has been so kind to them?

Don't question my generosity. Such gifts should be accepted without argument.