The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943 Quotes

“But, looking round at the world as it is, it seems to me (I speak as a fool) that youth is all out for dogma, and that if boys and girls grow up imagining that Christianity has no dogma to give them, they'll give themselves over to political dogma or economic dogma in its crudest and most intransigent form.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“But if you believe that Jesus was wholly God, then to condemn His conduct is presumptuous. If you believe that He was not wholly God, but only partly or in some respects divine, you are a heretic. If you think He was not God at all, you are an infidel.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“And you say you sometimes think that man may be just a disease in the universe. So, after all, you feel that there is something not quite right about man. Christianity is a trifle less pessimistic than you are. It doesn't say that man is the disease, but that he is diseased through and through; and it adds that the disease is curable. But look! the moment you say: 'There's something wrong, there's a disease, and it's something to do with man' - then, it doesn't matter two hoots what you call it, you have discovered what the Church means by sin. Never mind whether you thought that was what the Church meant or not - she may have expressed herself badly in your hearing. But that is it. Whatever you may think about 'sin' as a theory, you have discovered it for yourself as a fact.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“I could not attempt to 'kindle the younger generation with the Gospel,' the most I could do would be to suggest to them that the Christian Faith is a logical explanation of the Universe well worth their attention, and neither an irrational myth nor a system of ethics which will stand by itself when the dogmatic foundation has been removed from beneath it.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright