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… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“An enormous amount of energy has been expended uselessly in the past, in assaulting positions that are no longer held. For example, the old Protestant position of Justification by Faith only, has been practically relinquished long ago—at any rate in its old bald sense—by the vast majority of non-Catholics. Rather, the pendulum has swung so far that it would be… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world. — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“It is possible to find within the limits of a stone’s throw one Anglican divine who preaches practically the entire cycle of Catholic doctrine… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“ O Deus Ego Amo Te Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who love not… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty. — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“ Wedding Hymn Father, within Thy House today We wait Thy kindly love to see; Since thou hast said in truth that they Who… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
