Quotes related to Matthew 5:16
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
— Marcus Aurelius
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
— RC Sproul
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
— Albert Camus
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
— James Allen
You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!
— Gary Vaynerchuk
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
— Mother Teresa
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross