Quotes about Benevolence

Kindness affects more than severity.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use the words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

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