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“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”
“Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.''I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.''Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man's st...”
“But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,The heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.”
“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yo...”
“Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep ...”
“In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressib...”
“In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.”
“Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.”
“I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.”
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“COMPASSION ALERT:As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by lighting up a smile on someone's face”
“I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.”
“The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will always try to provoke you.”
“A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.”
“Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.”
“Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about i...”
“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.”
“The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on mens conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems.”