Benevolence Quotes

To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfish, and exercise our benevolent affections ,constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith.

Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.

Thackeray.

There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to his creatures.

Fielding.

Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues.

Home.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

H.W. Beecher.

He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others good, is a poor frozen churl.

Joanna Baillie.

He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindu Maxim.

I truly enjoy no more of the world’s good thing than what I willingly distribute to the needy.

Seneca.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are ware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Phillips Brooks.

They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, not always in coin, but in kind. Nothing multiples so much as kindness.

Wray.

Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic; it goes about doing good.

W. Nevins.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations.

Richter.

The best way to do good to ourselves, it to do it to others; the right way to gather, is to scatter.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Seneca.

Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practiced, but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.

Shaftesbury.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

F.W, Robertson.

It is the glory of the true religion that it includes and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it.

Fuller.

Rare benevolence! the minister of God.

Carlyle.

When Fenelon’s library was on fire, “God be praised,” he said, “ that it is not the dwelling of some poor man.”

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple, is a far nobler property than the finest intellect.

Howells.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Confucius.

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ like, he passes out of the region of theorizing into the region of benevolent activities; It is good to think well; it is divine to act well.

H. Mann.

It is no great part of good man’s lot to enjoy himself. To be good and to do good are his ends, and the glory is to be revealed hereafter.

S.I. Prime.