Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Professions : Poet Born : June 27, 1883 Died : March 8, 1929 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy 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. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy church worry long 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. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy joy giving son 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. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy eggs real war 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. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy pain uplifting prayer It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy easier reason-why thinking We shall build on. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy cynic persistence Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
