G. A. Studdert Kennedy Quotes

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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.

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears,
Waste of youth's most precious years,
Waste of ways the saints have trod,
Waste of Glory, waste of God,
War!

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

God gave His children memory,
That in life's garden there might be
June roses in December.

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by,
They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die.

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

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.

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

Born: June 27, 1883

Died: March 8, 1929 (aged 45)

Bio: Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy was an Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed 'Woodbine Willie' during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers.

Known for:

Food for the Fed-up (1921)
The New Man in Christ

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