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Robert Hugh Benson Quotes

1871–1914 England

Robert Hugh Benson (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer.

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Remorse is easy enough, but repentance means love; and a soul that has lost her Lover has lost her own power of loving.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Religion always is and always has been at the root of every world-movement.

The Dawn of All (1911)

Man’s highest life does not consist in self-expression, but in self-sacrifice.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Every man may err, but not the whole gathered together; for the whole hath a promise, but so hath not every particular man.

By What Authority? (1905)

If a soul lives long enough on the plane of sensuality or of ambition, she finds that Christ is worth less than nothing there.

Christ in the Church (1911)

It is scarcely likely that men on fire with success, whether military or commercial, will be patient of the restraints of religion.

By What Authority? (1905)

It is strange, sometimes, to find that some silent old lady has a power for sounding human character, which far shrewder persons lack.

By What Authority? (1905)

Conscience illuminated by the Presence of Jesus Christ in the heart must be the guide of every man.

The Friendship of Christ (1912)

To each soul Christ comes, all trusting as a friend, and in each soul He is betrayed over and over again.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Man must have liberty — he was made for it; but what liberty would that be which he has not learned to use?

The Dawn of All (1911)

A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.

Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)

It is a good deal more fashionable, and considered a great deal more 'spiritual,' to stand outside creeds and churches than within them.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Humility, obedience, simplicity — these are the virtues on which the Divine Friendship, as well as mere human friendships, alone can thrive.

The Friendship of Christ (1912)

The Cross is the symbol of absolutely endless expansion; it is never content; it points for ever and ever to four indefinitely receding points.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Forward and backward all in one; that is the way she loves to be wooed. She is a woman, remember that.

By What Authority? (1905)

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons, is a Divine instinct.

Charity, it has been said, is the pardoning of the unpardonable and the loving of the unlovable.

The Friendship of Christ (1912)

Complacency is the one obstacle to progress, in finance, in art, in intellect, and in the things of the spirit.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Philosophers tell us that the value of existence lies not in the objects perceived, but in the powers of perception.

By What Authority? (1905)

A growing lad, while he is clumsier, yet manages to leap higher than a year ago.

By What Authority? (1905)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Hugh Benson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.