“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.” — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community. — 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
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true. — 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
“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
