One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.” — 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
What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the… — 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… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed… — 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
“My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?' (Psalm 42:2)… — 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
