Quotes from 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.

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

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

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

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.

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