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
alive believes cares enjoys finds hates hell interferes lives purpose remains seeks sin
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
british-author human mankind
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
british-author goes less older toward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
confused thinking expression
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
should-have ideas achievement
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.
jesus people church
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
knowledge civilization way
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
memorable care bed
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.
life-changing forever want
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
spiritual expression satisfaction
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
vocabulary mind syntax
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
sweet greatness men
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
i-love-you happiness home
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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.