Robert Hugh Benson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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

#Ignorance #Light #Darkness
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
-- Robert Hugh Benson

#Simple #Church #Wells
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
-- Robert Hugh Benson

#Love #Lying #Liberty
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.
-- Robert Hugh Benson

#Love #Soul #World
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
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
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
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

#Impatience #Responsible #Intolerance

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