"We have taught our people to use prayer……" — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
"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."
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Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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