An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love… — 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
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the… — 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
Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a… — 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
