Quotes About Benevolence

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

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

One can love any man that is generous.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

What will He not give Who so much loves giving and can give all that He will?

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.

A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.

Shall He to thee His aid refuse Who clothes the swan in dazzling white, Who robes in green the parrot bright, The peacocks decks in rainbow hues?*

Verily great grace may goWith a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

large and honest, but indifferent or incompetent, state bureaucracy creates expectations that give rise to this dialectic of dependence and resentment, which does not exist in Italy, where no one would assume the honesty and therefore the benevolence of the public administration in the first place.