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Robert Hugh Benson on Love

1871–1914 England

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6 quotes

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)

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

Spiritual Letters (1915)

If God be Truth, and God be Love, is it not absolutely inevitable that the Love of God should bring the Truth of God down to the level of the very simplest?

Christ in the Church (1911)

Surely the King of Love needed no herald when Himself was here.

By What Authority? (1905)

Since God is approaching man, it is not a degradation, but a triumph of His love, that He should come so far down to meet him.

Maxims from the Writings of Mgr. Benson (1915)

"Praise the Lord, and love His creatures, birds and beasts as well as men."
Sweet Saint Francis of Assisi, would that he were here again!

An Alphabet of Saints (1906)

Attribution

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