Dorothy Day Quotes

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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in…
• What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as…
• If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
• It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
• Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek…
• When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
• Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell…
• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is…
• What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our…
• It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
• Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
• Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock…
• We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
• The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have…
• Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
• There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But…
• What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute.…
• True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

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