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Dorothy Day has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We…
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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and…
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that…
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
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Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good…
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting…
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What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each…
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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away…
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
— Juvenal
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The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
— Fredrik Bajer
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Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the…
— Unknown Author
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He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only…
— Dorothy Day
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...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to…
— Gregory Palamas
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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of…
— Honore de Balzac
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