Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to… — 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
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me… — 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
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
“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
