Benignity Quotes

#1. There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

Isaac Barrow

#2. Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.

Auberon Waugh

#3. [Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward until it brings down the person it loves best, and its world as well.

Harold Bloom

#4. Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Hannah More

#5. He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God's benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

John Calvin

#6. Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

John Locke

#7. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Charles Lamb

#8. In our own time it has been seen ... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Giorgio Vasari

#9. It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.

Ross Garnaut

#10. I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

Zayn Malik

#11. You're cute when you're confident. And less when you're not. -John Green, Paper Towns

John Green

#12. Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
The passion and infirmity of age.

James Anthony Froude

#14. in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society

Francis A. Schaeffer

#15. I used to think love was bound by numbers: first kisses, second dances, infinite heartbreaks. I used to think numbers outlasted the love itself, surviving in the dark corners of the demolished heart. I used to think love was heavy and hard.
I don't think those things anymore.

David Arnold

#16. Faith sustains the soul, spirit and the body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Gustave Flaubert