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"Speak from your heart...Be bold, yet not overbold."
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Robert Hugh BensonUntil our Lord comes back," he thought to himself; and for an instant — Robert Hugh Benson
"Until our Lord comes back," he thought to himself; and for an instant the old misery stabbed at his heart. How difficult it was to hold the eyes focussed on that far horizon when this world lay in the foreground so compelling in its splendour and its strength!"
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Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson
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Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein 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!.
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"Every man may err, but not the whole gathered together; for the whole hath a promise, but so hath not every particular man."
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"The Cross is the symbol of absolutely endless expansion; it is never content; it points for ever and ever to four indefinitely receding points."
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"Remorse is easy enough, but repentance means love; and a soul that has lost her Lover has lost her own power of loving."
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"The man who says, Unless I feel, I will not believe, is as narrow and foolish as the man who says, Unless I understand, I will not believe."
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"Each soul is as great as the world, and in each soul there is room for all the tragedies of the world to be re-enacted, as every puddle is great enough to hold the sun."
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