Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.” — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some of Van… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. — Dorothy Day Copy Share
Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. — Dorothy Day Copy Share
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.' — Dorothy Day Copy Share
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over. — Dorothy Day Copy Share
The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. — Dorothy Day Copy Share
“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share
