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Love Quotes by Dorothy Day

40 Love quotes by Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day links love to faith, saying we must enlarge our hearts to love neighbors, enemies, and friends alike. She believes true love is voluntary, not forced by fear, and that loving others helps us know God. Her thoughts also suggest that love lets us see the good in people.

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“Have we even begun to be Christians?”

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The final word is love.

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Women think with their whole bodies

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The only solution is love.

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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

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“Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.”

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You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

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We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

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There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

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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…

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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.”

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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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“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with…

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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work,…

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True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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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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I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you…

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“Does God have set way of prayer, a way that he expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe…

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We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the…

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“Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show…

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To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only…

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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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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start…

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“When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter,…

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True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There…

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“MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to…

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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we…

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“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we…

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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to…

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The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of…

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We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a…

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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love…

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Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant…

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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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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.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

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