Top 18 Robert Hugh Benson Quotes
#1. The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
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#2. Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
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#3. Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
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#4. 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.
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#5. You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.
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#6. Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.
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#9. A broken heart and God's will done would be better than that God's will should be avoided and her own satisfied.
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#10. Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.
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#11. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.
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#12. The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
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#13. Yes," he said, "in one sense, of course it is
utterly unreasonable.
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#14. Every code must be reversed; every barrier thrown down; party must unite with party, country with country, and continent with continent.
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#15. It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent ... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.
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#16. I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
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#17. I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.
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