Quotes about Benefit

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you shade tomorrow.

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

But perhaps the most compelling benefit for doing biblical theology is that it deepens our understanding of and facility with the gospel.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

That is why I decline to recognize the mere multimillionaire, the man of mere wealth, as an asset of value to any country; and especially as not an asset to my own country. If he has earned or uses his wealth in a way that makes him a real benefit, of real use- and such is often the case- why, then he does become an asset of real worth.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.

Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Or even knows they need attendin to. But I never done it to benefit myself. Shot that thing. Like I kept peace for seven year sake of a man I never knowed nor seen his face and like I seen them fellers never had no business there and if I couldn't run em off I could anyway let em know they was one man would let on that he knowed what they was up to. But I knowed if they could build it they could build it back and I done it anyway. Ever man loves peace and a old man best of all.

Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.