Quotes about Benevolence
When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
— Deepak Chopra
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
— John Calvin
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
— Charles Dickens
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
— Charles Spurgeon
When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.
— Bruce Wilkinson
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
— Phillips Brooks
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
— Publilius Syrus
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
— Publilius Syrus
remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4
— Kent Hughes
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He says to use it "to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:9, NIV).
— Randy Alcorn