Robert Hugh Benson
You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.Collection: Like You
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Freedom
It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.Collection: Love
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Intolerance
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.Collection: Sacrifice
Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.Collection: Possessed
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.Collection: Spiritual
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 said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.Collection: Air
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.Collection: Simple