Beneficence Quotes - Page 3

• Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

  Dawna Markova

  Kindness, Blessed, Capacity To Love

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• Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

  Henry Fielding

  Vices, Doe, Charity

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• That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Country, Race, Common Humanity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.

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• I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.

  Helen Keller

  Fate, Order, Optimism

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

  John Calvin

  Angel, Exercise, Safety

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