quotations about benevolence
We have every reason to conclude that moral action extends over the whole empire of God, that Benevolence exerts its noblest energies among the inhabitants of distant worlds, and that it is chiefly through the medium of reciprocal kindness and affection that ecstatic joy pervades the hearts of celestial intelligences, for we cannot conceive happiness to exist in any region of space, or among any class of intellectual beings, where love to the Creator and to one another is not a prominent and permanent affection.
THOMAS DICK
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The Complete Works of Thomas Dick
It is the business of the benevolent man to seek to promote what is beneficial to the world and to eliminate what is harmful, and to provide a model for the world. What benefits he will carry out; what does not benefit men he will leave alone.
MAZI
Mazi
No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the dispenser of all the riches in the universe.
ORVILLE DEWEY
Moral Views of Commerce, Society, and Politics
He saw the goodness, not the taint,
In many a poor do-nothing creature,
And gave to sinner and to saint,
But kept his faith in human nature.
E.C. STEDMAN
Horace Greeley
While I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
letter to the Bishop of Waterford, January 22, 1780
Benevolence is the most commendable when it is bestowed upon those in distress; it is a token of righteousness, whereby we acknowledge the gifts which God hath put into our hands.
RICHARD JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is necessary that universal benevolence should supersede the regulations of precedent and prescription, before these regulations can safely be abolished. Meanwhile, their very subsistence depends on the system of injustice and violence, which they have been devised to palliate.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Essay on Christianity
The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevolence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice.
ELIZABETH HAMILTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence.
RUFFINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
I had such great expectations
Of the world's benevolence
Of benevolence
But I prefer hallucinations
'cause they tend to make more sense
TODD RUNDGREN
"Temporary Sanity"
Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain.
ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY
attributed, Day's Collacon
We praise those who love their fellow-men.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
The benevolent affections will not revolve around selfishness; the cold-hearted must expect to meet coldness; the proud, haughtiness; the passionate, anger; and the violent, rudeness. Those who forget the rights of others, must not be surprised if their own are forgotten; and those who stoop to the lowest embraces of sense must not wonder, if others are not concerned to find their prostrate honor, and lift it up to the remembrance and respect of the world.
ALBERT PIKE
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Angelina
We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality.
OSHO
attributed, The Inward Journey in Osho's Guidance
To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
ADAM SMITH
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
His love was like the liberal air--
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.
WILLIAM WINTER
I.H. Bromley
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
RICHARD ALDINGTON
The Colonel's Daughter
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
BIBLE
Psalm 41:1-2