Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Hugh Benson (English Author, Clergyman)

Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was an English Roman Catholic priest and writer. His output encompassed historical, horror, science fiction, contemporary fiction, children’s stories, plays, sermons, apologetics, devotional articles, and poems.

Born in Berkshire, Benson was the fourth and youngest son of Archbishop Edward White Benson. He was the brother of writers E. F. Benson and A. C. Benson and the Egyptologist, Margaret Benson. Benson was educated at Eton College and then studied classics and theology at Trinity College-Cambridge. In 1895, his father, then Archbishop of Canterbury, ordained him a priest in the Church of England.

Benson converted to Roman Catholicism in 1903 and was ordained the following year. In 1911, as a monsignor, he became privy chamberlain to Pope Pius X in 1911.

Most of Benson’s work consists of Catholic apologia: he wrote sensational dystopian novels such as The Lord of the World (1907,) melodramatic historical novels such as Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912,) and modern novels usually involve an impossible moral conundrum, such as The Average Man (1913.) His other notable novels are By What Authority? (1904) and Richard Raynal (1906,) and Paradoxes of Catholicism (1913.)

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

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.
Robert Hugh Benson
Topics: Optimism, Health, Positive Attitudes

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