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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.

— Robert Hugh Benson Christ in the Church (1911)

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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)

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