Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

• The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People, Mind

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.43, St. Martin's Press

• It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Feelings, Firsts

• 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

  Faith, Mistake, Believe

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