Top 11 Quotes by 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.

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

Like You, Sincerely, Persons

Robert Hugh Benson (1915). “Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts”

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

Robert Hugh Benson

Thinking, Insane, Desire

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

Freedom, Ignorance, Knowledge

Robert Hugh Benson (1913). “Papers of a Pariah”

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

Robert Hugh Benson

Love, Soul, World

Robert Hugh Benson (2012). “The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary”, p.35, tredition

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

Robert Hugh Benson

Love, Lying, Liberty

Robert Hugh Benson (2015). “Dawn of All”, p.31, Booklassic

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

Intolerance, Impatience, Responsible

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

Sacrifice, Reality, Competition

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Robert Hugh Benson

Possessed

Robert Hugh Benson (1911). “Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays”

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

Spiritual, Intellectual, Society

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

Air, New Friendship, Might

Robert Hugh Benson (1912). “The Friendship of Christ”