Best Benevolence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back the vision remained more glorious than ever.”

Should Jesus Loses Poor Vision Heard Scene Mercy Bread Cells Glorious Gates Bells Monk Beggar Benevolence

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Generosity is only benevolence in practice.”

Practice Generosity Benevolence

Author:Thomas Ken

“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.”

“In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.”

People Asks Justice Regard Pity Perceive Benevolence Benevolent

Book:Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

Source: Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations0: With a life of the author : Also a view of the doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the french economists ...

“Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.”

Humans Form Dangerous Human Nature Benevolence Human Wisdom

Author:John Adams

“If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.”

Ifs President Information Pride Spring Glory Conviction Riches Innocence Grandeur Benevolence National Pride

Book:Works: with a life of the author

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.”

Government Liberty Depends Citizens Fellows Libertarian Beggar Benevolence Wealth Of Nations

Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

“Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.”

Men Self Action Religion Holy Aim Foundation Improvement Pursuit Obedience Purity Holiness Temper Benevolence Obedience To God

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.”

Men Long Order He Man Sweet Sake Scope Benevolence

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

“What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.”

Giving Asks Justice Chance Legs Pity Injury Benevolence Interference

Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.”

Seems Earth Humanity Given Highest Tasks Missions Almighty Benevolence Advancing

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.”

Today Lines Huge Benevolence Undertakings

Author:Julius Rosenwald

“I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Heart May Persons Self Character Can Do Judging Depends Pure Affection Seeking Ambitious Benevolence

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Mind Heart Spirit Certain Given Christ Holy Promise Definitions Firm Holy Spirit Benevolence Knowledge Of God Certain Knowledge

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.”

Self Interest Self Interest Benevolence

Book:The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

Source: The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton

“There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.”

May Happens Suffering Causes Mankind Evidence Absence Unhappiness Philanthropy Benevolence Sufferers

Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”

Men World Giving Hands Courses Century Color Duty Please Civilization Benefits Injustice Debt Cruelty Benevolence Atonement

Author:Albert Schweitzer

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

Men Winning Wise Affection Command Awe Benevolence Conqueror Benevolent

Author:William Dean Howells

“The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.”

Men Way Mean Character Government Lying Duty Administration Cherish Rulers Benevolence Treading Government Lies

Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.”

Doe Helping Feelings Suffering Levels Fellows Prosperous Benevolence Fellow Feeling

Book:A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches

Source: A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches

“Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.”

Regard Fundamentals Loyalty Obedience Benevolence Peacefulness Trustworthiness

Author:Ge Hong

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.”

Ifs Needs Giving States Use Law Force Teach Commandments Benevolence Coerce Physical Force

Book:Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism

Source: Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism

“[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.”

Men Matter Sides Poor Rich Flower Charity Climbing Contempt Palaces Marble Benevolence Pillars Vines

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“The person of benevolence never worries.”

Persons Worry Benevolence

Author:Confucius

“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.”