Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) — Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin, Essayistin · Anglikanisch (High Church) · Vereinigtes Königreich
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) war eine britische Schriftstellerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin, die vor allem in Oxford und London wirkte. Die anglo-katholisch geprägte Autorin wurde durch Kriminalromane sowie theologische Schriften bekannt und stieß mit einem BBC-Hörspielzyklus über das Leben Jesu wegen dessen alltagsnaher Sprache auf Blasphemievorwürfe konservativer Kreise. Für Bibelleser steht ihr Werk für den Versuch, biblische Berichte und christliche Dogmen jenseits erstarrter Kirchensprache intellektuell und künstlerisch greifbar zu machen.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Freedom & Truth, Work & Vocation, Wisdom & Understanding, Ethical Questions, Justice & Commitment, Meaning & Identity, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption
Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
Dorothy L. Sayers
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills.
Dorothy L. Sayers
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Dorothy L. Sayers
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job.
Dorothy L. Sayers
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
Dorothy L. Sayers
To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.
Dorothy L. Sayers
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of?
Dorothy L. Sayers
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
Dorothy L. Sayers
One can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The more genuinely creative the writer is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself.
Dorothy L. Sayers
To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh; to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door.
Dorothy L. Sayers
When I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten.
Dorothy L. Sayers
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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 of the obvious.
Dorothy L. Sayers
They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Sources: hersalisburystory.com, newworldencyclopedia.org, thegospelcoalition.org, christianity.com
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