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Robert Benson


Born
April 07, 1952


Robert Benson has written more than a dozen books about discovering the Holy in the midst of our everyday lives. He is a lifelong churchman, a graduate of the Academy for Spiritual Formation, a member of the Friends of Silence and of the Poor, and has been named a Living Spiritual Teacher by Spirituality and Practice. Benson lives and writes, pays attention and offers prayers at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 1,901 ratings · 337 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.”
― Robert Benson, Living Prayer
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“A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True”
― Robert Benson, Between the Dreaming and the Coming True: The Road Home to God
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“People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.”
― Robert Guillame as Benson
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