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88 Beneficent quotes by 73 unique authors

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or… — John Henry Newman
The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see God, to receive… — Pope Dionysius
If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can… — C.S. Lewis
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real… — C.S. Lewis
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our… — Eusebius
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in… — Woodrow Wilson
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive. — Epicurus
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes… — Eugene V. Debs
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as… — Louis Sullivan
Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You… — Frederick Lenz
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. — Paul Gauguin
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood… — John Muir
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to… — Miroslav Volf
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the… — Charles Darwin
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of… — Bob Dylan
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by… — Bertrand Russell
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions… — Charles Dickens
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb… — Alexandre Dumas
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed;… — Bertrand Russell
The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the… — Charlaine Harris
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of… — Elbert Hubbard

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