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"Speak from your heart...Be bold, yet not overbold."
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Robert Hugh BensonWe offer no rewards except those which God Himself has promised to tho — Robert Hugh Benson
"We offer no rewards except those which God Himself has promised to those that love Him, and lay down their life for Him; no promise of peace, save of that which passeth understanding; no home save that which befits pilgrims and sojourners who seek a City to come; no honour save the world’s contempt; no life, save that which is hid with Christ in God."
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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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