18 Benevolence Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Adam Smith

Business Dinner Own Our Benevolence Baker Expect Regard Interest Butcher

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza

War Confidence Justice Peace Mind Disposition State Virtue Benevolence Absence

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu

Truth Expediency Lost Beginning Virtue Benevolence Shadow Mere Conduct Expedience Disorder Appears Right Right Conduct

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness. Jonathan Maberry

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. Ellen G. White

Music Justice Mercy Every Benevolence Makes Heaven Heavenly Act Deed

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence. Neil deGrasse Tyson

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. Ezra Stiles

Wisdom Benevolence Possible Perfect Most Governments Infinite Monarchy

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann

Life Death Fear Pride Life Is A Other Benevolence Liberality Generosity Hour Genuine Very Different Proceeds Different Thing Thing

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. Saint Basil

Truth Kindness God Good Me Knowledge Grace Christ Parents Beginning Christian Our Benevolence Liberated Our Lord Spirit Through Learned Operation Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Tradition Led Error Very Which Loving Scriptures Them Holy Pagan Holy Scriptures Holy Spirit Even Jesus Jesus Christ

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive Life Death Good Man Evil Cold Benevolence Hath Absolute He Merely Like Real Heat Which Much

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. Ann Plato

Ignorance Remove Important Benevolence Branch

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic. Jacob Epstein

Home Remember Father Men Somebody Meal Manners Synagogue Air Benevolence About Somewhat Outside Share Bourgeois Well Him Although Comic Waited Patriarchal Which Them Poor Who Chosen Bringing

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. Joanna Trollope

Made Perception Enormous Benevolence Has-Been No Difference Admire Seems Both Name Him Been His Oddly Hugely Difference Psychological Help Professional

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. John Updike

Government Madness Benevolence Shading Magnitude Permits Either Organized Peculiar

Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours? Zhang Zhidong

Government Loyalty History Honesty Back Benevolence Ours Record Examine Generosity Countries Does Foreign Foreign Countries Years Western The History Of China Then Fifty Compare Present

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