Quotes About Charity And Benevolence

#1. There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

#2. Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

Moss Hart

#3. Love in your heart gives you the universe in your hands.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Saint-John Perse

#8. A helping hand is better than a critical tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. It's the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill.

Pamela Geller

#12. Those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.

Henrik Svensmark

#13. God leaves footprints wherever He goes;
love alone uncovers them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

Richard Thompson

#16. I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.

Mary Baker Eddy

#17. Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence ...

Marcel Proust

#19. I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andrea Riseborough

#20. The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

Arj Barker

#22. To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

Billy Graham

#24. If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#25. Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

Margaret Atwood

#26. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan

#27. What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

John Ruskin

#28. [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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#29. I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

Jay Gordon

#30. But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage.
So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bought a sousaphone instead, which he had always wanted.

Neil Gaiman

#31. Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540 is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:

The Catholic Church

#33. Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical.

Noam Chomsky

#34. A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

Eliphas Levi

#36. Love poured out multiplies love poured in.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Albert Einstein

#38. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

#39. Mankind was my business ... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Charles Dickens

#40. Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

John Quincy Adams

#41. You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

Zora Neale Hurston

#42. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.

Charles Dickens