I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do,… — 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
Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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 Image
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
