Community Quote by Dorothy Day

“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute…

— Pope Francis

“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This takes s…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

— Faye Dunaway

It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as…

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she…

— Catherine of Siena

“Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for lack of action. We become caught…

— Noelle Sterne

All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do…

— Jean Gebser

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

— Brunello Cucinelli

“work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner,…

— Larry Niven