Quotes About Benevolence

Good deeds are the highest notes in life's symphony.

Love boldly. Love boundlessly. Love benevolently. Love blessedly.

What you seek for others you find for yourself.

The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.

is.32.8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.†

The more we fix our hopes on the recompence of reward in the other world, the more free and liberal shall we be of our earthly treasure upon all occasions of doing good.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the two faces of altruism. It is their object that distinguishes them: loving-kindness wants all beings to experience happiness, while compassion focuses on eradicating their suffering.

The happiest man is he who has no trace of malice in his soul. PLATO

l'amour de soi conduit à souhaiter son propre bien, tandis que l'amour égoïste conduit à ne souhaiter que celui-ci.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!

Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path.

In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can't pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

As noted previously, a principle of moral good is this: if other persons are involved in an action, then always act with their good in mind, and never act in a way that it leads to their loss or suffering (through force or fraud).

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