The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

“The whole question is extraordinarily complicated because of the gulf that has grown up between art on the one hand and on the other hand both the Church and secular society, so that the artists tend to be out of touch with the common man, while the latter, whether Christian or not, has only a very fumbling critical judgment to rely on.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays

“The same is true of oil – and, in a more alarming way, of the actual fruits of agriculture. If we make ourselves greedy and grasping tyrants of the earth – ravishing and not serving it – it takes its revenge in waste lands, barren soil, flood, drought and dearth. Every time we upset the balance of natural forces by over-cultivation, either of earth, animals or what-not, we seem to come up against some law which sends back to us in famine or disease the catastrophes we tried to avoid.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays

“Look what I’ve found! Come and have a bit of it – it’s grand – you’ll love it – I can’t keep it to myself, and anyhow, I want to know what you think of it.”3”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays