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Robert Hugh Benson (November 18, 1871 - October 19, 1914) was an English writer and theologian whose works spanned across various fields including religion, history, and science fiction.

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All Persons Liberty Love Acquire Air All Kinds And Love Authority Bangs Bliss

Famous Robert Hugh Benson Quotes

“To say 'Hail Mary, Hail Mary,' is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And then this string of beads is like Our Lady's girdle, and her children love to finger it, and whisper to her. And then we say our paternosters, too; and all the while we are talking she is shewing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things He did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again.”

Catholic Mary Rosary

Book:By What Authority?

Source: By What Authority?

“The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”

Wells Church Simple

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“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.”

Has Beens Seems Position Responsible Series Intolerance Impatience Provocation

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.”

Possessed

Book:Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays

Source: Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays

“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.”

Mind May Light Freedom Liberty Knowledge Darkness Information Ignorance Chains Bliss Acquire Darkness To Light

Book:Papers of a Pariah

Source: Papers of a Pariah

“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.”

Kind Persons Body Spiritual Society Members Intellectual All Kinds Organisms Select Containing

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”

Said Might Form Grows Natural Emotion Air Limits Mercy Eternity Faculty Seeming New Friends New Friendship Making New Friends

Book:The Friendship of Christ

Source: The Friendship of Christ

“I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.”

Thinking Persons Sometimes Desire Divine Instinct Complaining Insane Kicks Bangs

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“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.”

Doe Reality Individual Interest Wealth Common Sacrifice Constant Competition Operations Enterprise Productive Involving Common Interests

Author:Robert Hugh Benson

“It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.”

World Love Soul This World Empty

Book:The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

Source: The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

“The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.”

Love Lying Love Is Liberty Authority And Love Unions Reconciliation Lies In Love

Book:Dawn of All

Source: Dawn of All

“You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.”

Persons Like You Sincerely

Book:Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts

Source: Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts

About the Author

Born: November 18, 1871
Died: October 19, 1914
Known for: Author
Quotes: 12

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By What Authority?Related source material

Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious EssaysRelated source material

Dawn of AllRelated source material

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Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His ConvertsRelated source material

The Friendship of ChristRelated source material

The History of Richard Raynal, SolitaryRelated source material

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