When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.” — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.” — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter,… — 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