Dorothy Day Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Dorothy Day on Wise Famous Quotes.
To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because
I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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 of us?
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
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 again.
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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 relationships?
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.