Top 25 Robert Hugh Benson Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.”

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

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “There is only one thing to be done,” went on the old lady, “be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.”

4. “There is only one thing to be done,” went on the old lady, “be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.”

5. “For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.”

6. “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

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.”

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

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”

8. “The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Christianity is absurd and impossible. Now, you know, it cannot be that! It may be untrue – I am not speaking of that now, even though I am perfectly certain that it is absolutely true – but it cannot be absurd so long as educated and virtuous people continue to hold it. To say that it is absurd is simple pride; it is to dismiss all who believe in it as not merely mistaken, but unintelligent as well –.”

9. “Christianity is absurd and impossible. Now, you know, it cannot be that! It may be untrue – I am not speaking of that now, even though I am perfectly certain that it is absolutely true – but it cannot be absurd so long as educated and virtuous people continue to hold it. To say that it is absurd is simple pride; it is to dismiss all who believe in it as not merely mistaken, but unintelligent as well –.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.”

11. “Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.”

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

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “A broken heart and God’s will done would be better than that God’s will should be avoided and her own satisfied.”

13. “A broken heart and God’s will done would be better than that God’s will should be avoided and her own satisfied.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “To say ‘Hail Mary, Hail Mary,’ is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And then this string of beads is like Our Lady’s girdle, and her children love to finger it, and whisper to her. And then we say our paternosters, too; and all the while we are talking she is shewing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things He did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again.”

14. “To say ‘Hail Mary, Hail Mary,’ is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And then this string of beads is like Our Lady’s girdle, and her children love to finger it, and whisper to her. And then we say our paternosters, too; and all the while we are talking she is shewing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things He did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.”

15. “Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “It was incredible, she told herself, that this ravening monster, dripping blood from claws and teeth, that had arisen roaring in the night, could be the Humanity that had become her God. She had thought revenge and cruelty and slaughter to be the brood of Christian superstition, dead and buried under the new-born angel of light, and now it seemed that the monsters yet stirred and lived.”

16. “It was incredible, she told herself, that this ravening monster, dripping blood from claws and teeth, that had arisen roaring in the night, could be the Humanity that had become her God. She had thought revenge and cruelty and slaughter to be the brood of Christian superstition, dead and buried under the new-born angel of light, and now it seemed that the monsters yet stirred and lived.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.”

17. “I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “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!”

18. “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!”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by the miracle of ignorance.”

19. “In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by the miracle of ignorance.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.”

20. “Friendliness took the place of charity, contentment the place of hope, and knowledge the place of faith.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and the pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by a miracle of ignorance. The alliance of Psychology and Materialism did indeed seem, looked at from one angle, to account for everything; it needed a robust supernatural perception to understand their practical inadequacy.”

21. “In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and the pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by a miracle of ignorance. The alliance of Psychology and Materialism did indeed seem, looked at from one angle, to account for everything; it needed a robust supernatural perception to understand their practical inadequacy.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “So movement by movement the gorgeous drama was enacted; the murmuring of the crowds died to a stillness that was but one wordless prayer as the tiny White Disc rose between the white hands, and the thin angelic music pealed in the dome. For here was the one hope of these thousands, as mighty and as little as once within the Manger. There was none other that fought for them but only God.”

22. “So movement by movement the gorgeous drama was enacted; the murmuring of the crowds died to a stillness that was but one wordless prayer as the tiny White Disc rose between the white hands, and the thin angelic music pealed in the dome. For here was the one hope of these thousands, as mighty and as little as once within the Manger. There was none other that fought for them but only God.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.”

23. “The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Surely then, if the blood of men and the tears of women could not avail to move the Judge and Observer of all from His silence, surely at least here the bloodless Death of His only Son, that once on Calvary had darkened heaven and rent the earth, pleaded now with such sorrowful splendour upon this island of faith amid a sea of laughter and hatred – this at least must avail! How could it not?”

24. “Surely then, if the blood of men and the tears of women could not avail to move the Judge and Observer of all from His silence, surely at least here the bloodless Death of His only Son, that once on Calvary had darkened heaven and rent the earth, pleaded now with such sorrowful splendour upon this island of faith amid a sea of laughter and hatred – this at least must avail! How could it not?”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “It will be time, then, to suffer by and bye, when the Prince of this world cometh upon the Prince of Heaven.”

25. “It will be time, then, to suffer by and bye, when the Prince of this world cometh upon the Prince of Heaven.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “Yes,” he said, “in one sense, of course it is – utterly unreasonable.”

26. “Yes,” he said, “in one sense, of course it is – utterly unreasonable.”

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Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “From this duty We Ourself must not be deterred by the knowledge of Our own weakness and ignorance, but to trust rather that He Who has placed Us on this throne will deign to speak through Our mouth and use Our words to His glory.”

27. “From this duty We Ourself must not be deterred by the knowledge of Our own weakness and ignorance, but to trust rather that He Who has placed Us on this throne will deign to speak through Our mouth and use Our words to His glory.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson Quote: “It was Christianity alone that made life tolerable.”

28. “It was Christianity alone that made life tolerable.”

— Robert Hugh Benson

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