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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes: I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
         

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.


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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.



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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.



For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.



Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.



God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.



What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.



A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.



It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.



As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.



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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.





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Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.



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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.



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When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.



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God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?



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