Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Quotes:
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.
topic: Uplifting, Pain, Prayer
