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Perhaps that is the reason that I think I see it all so plainly; just because I want to see it plainly.

— Robert Hugh Benson By What Authority? (1905)

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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)

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