“How fleeting are all human passions, compared to the massive continuity of ducks.” PassionDucksGaudy Night Author:Dorothy Sayers
“Evil is the soul’s choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation, or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) “send” anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in the state that it has chosen.” EvilHellWillDamnationDorothy SayersLetters To A Diminished Church Author:Dorothy Sayers
“The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.” EvilMoralityGoodnessDorothy SayersLetters To A Diminished Church Author:Dorothy Sayers
“In the world it is called tolerance but in hell it is called despair. The sin that believes in nothing, seeks to know nothing, enjoys nothing, finds purpose in nothing lives for nothing but remains alive because there is nothing which it would die for.” PurposeBeliefSinToleranceLiberalSayers Author:Dorothy Sayers
“Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.” SinForgivenessConsequences Author:Dorothy Sayers
“The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.” InspirationalTheologyCreative ProcessTrinitarian Author:Dorothy Sayers