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Quotes from Come Rack! Come Rope! — Robert Hugh Benson

1871–1914 England

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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)

For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.

Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)

Robin felt a strange thrill of glory at the thought that he bore with him, in virtue of his priesthood only, so much consolation. He faced for the first time that tremendous call of which he had heard so much in Rheims—that desolate cry of souls that longed and longed in vain for those gifts which a priest of Christ could alone bestow.

Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)

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