{"id":1341,"date":"2009-04-29T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-06-27T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T02:55:56","slug":"dorothy-sayers-on-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/04\/29\/dorothy-sayers-on-work","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Sayers on&nbsp;Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 15 years ago, I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Eric-Treuil\/504027966\">Eric Treuil<\/a> quote Dorothy Sayers to the effect that the carpenter from Nazareth never built any shoddy tables. It was fabulous. I\u2019ve been thinking about that observation off and on ever&nbsp;since.<\/p>\n<p>I recently stumbled upon it again, this time in its original form. It\u2019s found in the essay \u201cWhy Work?\u201d by Dorothy Sayers which appeared in her book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4FwOAAAACAAJ\">Creed or Chaos<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popandpolitics.com?three_days_of_the_condor\">free three days of the condor movie download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  and is also now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faith-at-work.net\/Docs\/WhyWork.pdf\">online<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webdev.entheosweb.com?fistful_of_dollars_a\">download fistful of dollars a divx<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one of my favorite passages:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishlibraries.org\/blog?over_her_dead_body\">over her dead body divx<\/a><\/u> The Church\u2019s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorm9.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/1\/browning-automatic-rifle-sales.html\">automatic rifle&nbsp;sales<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishlibraries.org\/blog?mother_of_tears_the_third_mother\">download mother of tears the third mother online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmarkets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/excel-loan-amortization-schedule-prepayment.html\">excel loan amortization schedule prepayment<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly \u2013 but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter\u2019s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth. No piety in the worker will compensate for work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own technique is a living lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[The Church] has lost all sense of the fact that the living and eternal truth is expressed in work only so far as that work is true in itself, to itself, to the standards of its own technique. She has forgotten that the secular vocation is sacred. Forgotten that a building must be good architecture before it can be a good church; that a painting must be well painted before it can be a good sacred picture; that work must be good work before it can call itself God\u2019s work. <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awf.org\/images\/googleearth\/4\/purse-brite.html\">purse brite<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole essay is well worth reading and I commend it to&nbsp;you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clacs04.org?passage_to_india_a\">passage to india a divx online<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 15 years ago, I heard Eric Treuil quote Dorothy Sayers to the effect that the carpenter from Nazareth never built any shoddy tables. It was fabulous. I\u2019ve been thinking about that observation off and on ever&nbsp;since. I recently stumbled upon it again, this time in its original form. 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