“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
“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
“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
“[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
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 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
“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 Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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