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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes: It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
         

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.


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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.



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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.



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



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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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