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Real love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed; not, so to speak, to devour the beloved, to satisfy self with the beloved, but the exact contrary—to be devoured and to satisfy.

— Robert Hugh Benson Christ in the Church (1911)

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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.

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

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

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

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

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