Benevolence Quotes - Page 13

• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.

  Kent Nerburn

  Perfect, Greed, Balance

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• What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

  Frederick Douglass

  Justice, Pity, Asks

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ideas, Charity, Victim

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• Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Manners, Politeness

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

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