Quotes about Benevolence
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
- Richard Paul Evans
The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary
- Richard Paul Evans
We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.
- Rick Warren
When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
- Deepak Chopra
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
- John Calvin
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
- Charles Dickens
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
- Pierre Corneille
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
- Charles Spurgeon
When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
- Bruce Wilkinson
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillips Brooks