Dorothy Day Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.”
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“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.”
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“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
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“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
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“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”
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“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”
-- Dorothy DaySource : Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.326, Image
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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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“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”
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“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
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“You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.”
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“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
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“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
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“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
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“An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.”
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“They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”
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“The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.”
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“Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.”
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“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 will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.”
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“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
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“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 of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.”
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“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 at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
-- Dorothy DaySource : "Singing the Living Tradition" by the Unitarian Universalist Association, (p. 560), 1993.
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“Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.”
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“Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?”
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“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
-- Dorothy DaySource : "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.
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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 shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.”
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“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”
-- Dorothy DaySource : "On Pilgrimage".
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“We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.”
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“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 they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.”
-- Dorothy Day
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