Thursday, April 27, 2006

Sayers and Work

I read an interesting quote by Dorothy Sayers about work in a not so interesting book by Sherman and Hendricks. The quote is as follows:
In nothing has the church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and
destructive ends, and that the greater part of the world's intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion. How can any one remain
interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his
life?
(p. 20, Your Work Matters to God)