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Robert Hugh Benson Quotes: Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.
         

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.


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You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.



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

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



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

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



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.

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 Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

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



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

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



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.

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.





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