Quotes on Benevolence

Definition: Giving to others' basic needs without having as my motive personal reward.

"That man is worthless who knows how to receive a benefit, but not how to return one."--Plautus (c. 200 B.C.)

"The best portions of a good man's life are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."--Anonymous

"'Twas her thinking of others made you think of her."--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive it, remember it always."--Chilon of Lacedemon (c. 600 B.C.)

"Feel for others--in your pocket."--Charles H. Spurgeon

"Let others' deeds of kindness frankly be revealed; but your own good to others, always keep concealed."--Cato

"Your best resume is not what you write, but how you live."--Anonymous

"You've out-grown that coat, let's give it to someone who can wear it."--Common saying of mothers

"The man who dies rich dies disgraced."--Andrew Carnegie

"If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness."--Cyrus

"Benevolence is the medicine for all ills."--Sa'di

"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren"--Martin Luther

"You can give without loving, but you can not love without giving."--Amy Carmichael

"The knowledge that God has loved me to the uttermost ... will send me forth into the world to love in the same way."--Oswald Chambers

"Love is a weakness in which lies our strength."--C. H. Spurgeon

"One of the world's worst tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little beside ourselves."--A. W. Tozer

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."--John 3:16

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."--John 13:35

"God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."--Romans 5:8

"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."--John 15:13

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." 1 Corinthian 13:4-8