R. William Bennett > Quotes

“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“If we do nothing but to remove a rock upon which someone might have tripped, though they may never know we did it, is this not our cause, our reason for life?”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“Are spirits so involved in men's lives? Marley asked.
Mankind is inolved in men's lives. We only help them know how.
...Jacob, all around you, every day, as you walk the miles of earth, there are calls to your spirit and to all others' spirits as well. They come from your fellow beings and from life itself: the way the sun highlights a tree, a bird song lilting across the morning, the smell of flowers. All these are for your joy, but also for more. They call you.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“Jacob, love does not prosecute. It seeks neither revenge nor dominance. It does not win at the cost of someone else’s loss. Love only accepts, completely and without reservation.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“We all ascend or descend in steps, the journey to the high road or the low taken in many increments, the sum total determining our eventual destination.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“death may seem quite a terminal affair, yet in its vacuum new possibilities spring forth, not just for those left behind but for the dead as well.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley

“These souls were eternally disconnected, forever separated with a force that would not allow any interchange. They were like another race with no societal tie to each other, bound on their own miserable, independent journeys, alike only in the obvious countenance of pain.”
― R. William Bennett, Jacob T. Marley