Quotes About Benefit

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Doing good is good for business.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.