Best Beneficent Sayings
88 Beneficent quotes by 73 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
— Epicurus
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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
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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
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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
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
— Paul Gauguin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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