Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

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.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A good deed is a good deed.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

Whenever I see people in difficulty, I just try to help them. In fact, I believe I have helped over 700,000 people in my life.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

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.

How much good do you suppose condescending charity does?

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

You don't need a reason to help people.

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.