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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.

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, People, Church
Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.41, Wipf and Stock Publishers

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, People, Justice

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, Evil, Rose
"The Triumph of Easter" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1938.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, Drama, Might

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, Taken, Heart

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Jesus, Winning, Unique
Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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