Quotes About Benevolence

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. -The Teacher, The Book of Proverbs

I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

God is even kinder than you think.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

The grace of God is courtesy.

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.