--- title: "13 Believe Quotes By Dorothy Day" description: "13 Believe quotes by Dorothy Day. Plus more from Dorothy Day and more Believe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/dorothy-day-1629_believe_i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depe_752675.png" --- > [I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depends-on-the-poor/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/dorothy-day-1629_believe_i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depe_752675.png) > [We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regardless-of-race-color-or-creed/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regard_1197421.jpg) > [We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-nazis-marxists-and-fascists/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-naz_25918.png) > [How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/how-much-did-i-hear-of-religion-as-a-child-very-little-and-yet-my/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/dorothy-day-1629_believe_how-much-did-i-hear-of-religion-as-a-chi_1046694.png) > [Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/maybe-i-was-praying-for-him-then-in-my-own-way-does-god-have-a-set/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/dorothy-day-1629_believe_maybe-i-was-praying-for-him-then-in-my-o_2876082.png) > [I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-can-write-no-other-than-this-unless-we-use-the-weapons-of-the/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c6/dorothy-day-1629_aggression_i-can-write-no-other-than-this-unless-we_1452680.png) > [I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-believe-that-we-must-reach-our-brother-never-toning-down-our/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/dorothy-day-1629_asks_i-believe-that-we-must-reach-our-brother_2537948.jpg) > [Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/two-years-ago-i-was-saying-as-i-planted-seeds-in-the-garden-i-must/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fd/dorothy-day-1629_accepting_two-years-ago-i-was-saying-as-i-planted_606554.jpg) > [How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/how-necessary-it-is-to-cultivate-a-spirit-of-joy-it-is-a/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/dorothy-day-1629_believe_how-necessary-it-is-to-cultivate-a-spiri_1486739.jpg) > [Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/marx-lenin-mao-tse-tung-these-men-were-animated-by-the-love-of/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ec/dorothy-day-1629_animated_marx-lenin-mao-tse-tung-these-men-were-a_1083307.jpg) > [The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-theoretician-of-the-marxist-revolution-in-cuba-certainly-wasn-t/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f88/dorothy-day-1629_believe_the-theoretician-of-the-marxist-revoluti_531735.png) > [We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-re-living-in-an-age-of-genocide-and-we-do-believe-that-there-is/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/dorothy-day-1629_abortion_we-re-living-in-an-age-of-genocide-and-w_1155012.jpg) > [If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/if-i-did-not-believe-if-i-did-not-make-what-is-called-an-act-of-faith/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/430/dorothy-day-1629_believe_if-i-did-not-believe-if-i-did-not-make-w_2565903.png) ## Other authors on Believe ## More by Dorothy Day > [“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/there-was-no-attack-on-religion-because-people-were-generally/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-nazis-marxists-and-fascists/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/now-don-t-think-i-ve-lost-my-mind-but-i-ll-tell-you-i-ll-look-at-some/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-sexual-revolution-is-a-complete-rebellion-against-authority/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/idealism-in-the-young-i-guess-i-m-saying-is-curiosity-as-well-as/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/voluntary-poverty-isn-t-going-around-with-some-burlap-bag-around-you/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/women-think-with-their-whole-bodies-and-they-see-things-as-a-whole/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/my-whole-life-so-far-my-whole-experience-has-been-that-our-failure/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-think-one-of-the-things-we-must-constantly-keep-in-mind-is-if/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/it-is-only-through-religion-that-communism-can-be-achieved-and-has/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-communists-in-cuba-didn-t-assist-castro-in-his-revolution-they/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/dear-god-please-enlarge-our-hearts-to-love-each-other-to-love-our/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [A conversion is a lonely experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/a-conversion-is-a-lonely-experience/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [The sense is always that community is natural to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-sense-is-always-that-community-is-natural-to-people/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-practice-the-presence-of-god-he-said-that-when-two-or-three/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/dorothy-day/#itemlist", "name": "13 Believe Quotes By Dorothy Day", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy Day" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depends-on-the-poor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/dorothy-day-1629_believe_i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depe_752675.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/dorothy-day-1629_believe_i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depe_752675.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f9/dorothy-day-1629_believe_i-firmly-believe-that-our-salvation-depe_752675.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.” — Dorothy Day", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy Day" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regardless-of-race-color-or-creed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regard_1197421.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regard_1197421.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61f/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-believe-in-loving-our-brothers-regard_1197421.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by…” — Dorothy Day", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy Day" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-nazis-marxists-and-fascists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-naz_25918.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-naz_25918.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/dorothy-day-1629_believe_we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-naz_25918.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental…” — Dorothy Day", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How much did I hear of religion as a child? 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The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. 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It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. 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