Sentence examples for benevolence to from inspiring English sources

(Goldsworthy's skepticism is here a good corrective. Cleopatra's benevolence to her subjects, he believes, is "largely wishful thinking").

He claims, however, to have brought truth and benevolence to some 70m people in China, and to another 30m elsewhere.

You weren't — I don't know — it felt like an act of benevolence to actually, truthfully, describe, in a way that would be delicious to experience, how things were".

Institutional benevolence to the poor, the sick, orphans, and other people in need has been characteristic of the Christian church from its beginnings.

"There appears in his natural temper," wrote his contemporary, the philosopher George Berkeley, "something very generous and a great benevolence to mankind".

These traditions have also pointed out that it is not sufficient to confine our benevolence to those we find congenial – to our own ethnic, national or ideological group.

The only way to respond to challenges to God's benevolence is to deny that the human condition is really so miserable.

Whereas beneficence refers to an action done to benefit others, benevolence refers to the morally valuable character trait or virtue of being disposed to act to benefit others.

Writes Cohen: "That would seem to have benevolence tied to its very nature.

But when it comes to anonymous benevolence, directed to causes that, unlike people, can give nothing in return, what could motivate a donor?

For years he had been living a largely untroubled life in a Dakar neighborhood, well liked for his benevolence — according to local news accounts — by residents oblivious to the amply documented cruelties of his government.