Quotes About Benefits

OUR MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE in life, according to Epictetus, is whether to concern ourselves with things external to us or things internal. Most people choose the former because they think harms and benefits come from outside themselves.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

It is evident that imputation depends ?upon our union with Christ. "Having been made by God a surety for us and given to us for a head, he can communicate to us his righteousness and all of his benefits." Our union with Christ is the "cause and foundation" of our sharing in all his benefits, including justification (remission of sins and adoption as sons) (1992, 16.6).

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

Employers dislike defined benefit plans, because of the large, variable liability associated with a promise to pay remainder-of-lifetime benefits to pensioners and because of the large, variable pool of assets required to fund the liability. Employees dislike defined benefit plans, because the future stream of pension payments lacks definition and immediacy.

in our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

The less the value of work is seen to lie either in what it produces, or the benefits it provides to others, the more work comes to be seen as valuable primarily as a form of self-sacrifice, which means that anything that makes that work less onerous or more enjoyable, even the gratification of knowing that one's work benefits others, is actually seen to lower its value—and as a result, to justify lower levels of pay.

Keep asking the question 'Who benefits?' - Who benefits from me believing what they are telling me? Remember that words don't change the world only outcomes do. The outcome will invariably tell you who was behind events that justified or led to the outcome and you can see the process at an earlier stage by asking when an event happens - what will be the outcome if I believe what they are telling me?

At Disney World, membership in a union does not guarantee discernible perks. Employees who don't pay dues are entitled to the same pay and benefits as those who do, since Florida is a "right-to-work" state—or "right-to-freeload," as union members charge.

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

We are surrounded by God's benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.