beneficence

Noun

Meaning

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

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A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Jane Addams

[P]eople who canalise their lives and prearrange their enjoyments lose much of the enchantment which attends the guiding beneficence of chance. Alfred Austin

Open your hands, ye Whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending. Josiah Gilbert Holland

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. Moses Mendelssohn

Fellow-citizens, fellow-soldiers, in this there is the beneficence of eternal justice, and by it we will stand forever. James A. Garfield

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