We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to… — 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
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
These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that… — 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 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
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
Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and… — 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
Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. — 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
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — 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
“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
