Notes From Jon

I wish I could say I encountered these tidbits in their original context.  I’ve yet to read anything by Dorothy Sayers, but after finding these, I think I’d like to soon…

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

This one especially made me think:

The sixth deadly sin is named by the Church acedia or sloth. In the world it calls itself tolerance, but in hell it is called despair. It is the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive only because there is nothing it would die for.

- The Six Other Deadly Sins (Dorothy L. Sayers)