Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Hugh Benson

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS was an English Roman Catholic priest and writer. In 1903, Benson, an Anglican priest, was received into the Catholic Church; he was ordained a Catholic priest the next year. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack! Come Rope!. His output encompassed historical, horror and science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's stories, plays, apologetics, devotional works and articles. He continued his writing career at the same time as he progressed through the hierarchy to become a Chamberlain to Pope Pius X in 1911 and gain the title of Monsignor, before his death a few years later.

November 18, 1871 - October 19, 1914

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

Robert Hugh Benson

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.

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.

Robert Hugh Benson

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

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.

Robert Hugh Benson

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Robert Hugh Benson

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

Robert Hugh Benson

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

Robert Hugh Benson

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

Robert Hugh Benson

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.

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.

Robert Hugh Benson

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Hugh Benson

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