Jacob White

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I needed a new wallpaper for my two dual monitor setups at work and home. And always being more inclined to make my own over browsing the web, I chose to make one based on a wonderful quote by Dorothy Sayers that I heard on a recent “White Horse Inn” episode. I’ve included the link below for the wallpaper (3200px by 1200px).

Excellent work and the Christian.

Here is the quote:

“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.

Why is that so astonishing? How can any one remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life? The Church’s 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.

- 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, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they had, 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… Yet in her own buildings, in her own ecclesiastical art and music, in her hymns and prayers, in her sermons, and little books of devotion, the church will tolerate a pious intention to excuse work so ugly, so pretentious, so tawdry and twaddling, so insecure and insipid, so bad as to shock and horrify any decent craftsman.”

(Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?)

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