Faith Quotes by Dorothy Day

11 Faith quotes by Dorothy Day

Day’s tenacity for justice shines through these eleven reflections on Faith. The quotes blend her activist spirit with a deep personal conviction, giving readers a compact look at her worldview.

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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the…

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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in…

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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought…

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"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an…

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Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King,…

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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be…

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“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual…

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If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith…

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“We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes…

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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

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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…

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…

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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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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…

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Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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A conversion is a lonely experience.

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The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of…

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