Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayerswas a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth13 June 1893
jesus evil rose
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
educational men effort
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
strong-women time uncontrollable-urge
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
atheist work thinking
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
differences numbers people
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
order house waste
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.
occupation nuisance world
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
christian men church
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
secret
That there is a secret itself is a secret.
dragons rewards gains
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
jesus people justice
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.
numbers astrology people
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
true-love people wicked
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
media public-opinion journalism
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.