Quotes about Benevolence
Give prayerfully... give joyfully...and ask God to use your gifts to help others in the name of Jesus.
- Billy Graham
The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.
- Billy Graham
God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
- Billy Graham
I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.
- Booker T. Washington
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
- St. Basil
In a world full of sadness and travail, kindness is not to be underestimated. You have the change to do a great deal of good, my dear, just by showing kindness to those the trail brings your way. Whatever you do, do your work heartily, not as unto men, but as unto God. He will take notice and He will be pleased.
- Stephanie Grace Whitson
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any
- AW Tozer
When in doubt, always choose love & gratitude.
- Hal Elrod
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Gratitude springs from an insight, a recognition that something good has come from another person, that it is freely given to me, and meant as a favor.
- Henri Nouwen
I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you the peace that you felt as a child will come to you often and it will linger with you. The promise is true that He made to His disciples: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:... not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
- Henry B. Eyring
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau