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One Quotes by Dorothy Day
- 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…
- 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…
- There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
- It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what…
- We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is…
- To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe…
- As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things…
- Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content.…
- I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow…
- If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
- How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one…
- So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.…
- The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one…
- They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
- First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works…
- True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some…
- Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
- People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step…
- One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense…
- What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our…
- No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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