“The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“You needn't try to bully me, young man," said that octogenarian with spirit, "settin' there spoilin' your stomach with them nasty jujubes.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“[I]t's difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, to be a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That this is really the case was made plain to me by the questions asked me, mostly by young men, about my… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
![“What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c5/dorothy-l-sayers-738_carpenter_what-the-church-should-be-telling-him-th_2145453.jpg)
![“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)
![“[I]t's difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having are the things you find out for yourself. Also, that when so many brands of what Chesterton calls 'fancy souls' and theories of life are offered you, there is no sense in…” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/485/dorothy-l-sayers-738_christian-religion_i-t-s-difficult-to-make-people-see-that_1177069.jpg)
![“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c74/dorothy-l-sayers-738_academia_see-that-the-mind-is-honest-first-the-re_16293.jpg)
