Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

We all have the duty to do good.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Justice to others is charity for ourselves.

It is unacceptable to be silent about American generosity.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I give back because that is what I was taught and it is what I believe.

People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.