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It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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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.
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There's truth as far as you knows it and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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