Ocupation: Poet
Life: June 27, 1883 - March 8, 1929
Birthday: June 27
Death: March 8
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.
Topics: Uplifting, Pain, Prayer
It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
Topics: Thinking, Reason, Easier
We shall build on. On through the cynic
Topics: Persistence, Cynic
Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.
Topics: Long, Worry, Church
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.
Topics: Son, Giving, Joy
War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.
Topics: Real, War, Eggs, Daily Mail
