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One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
— Dorothy Day
To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
— Dorothy Day
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.
— Dorothy Day
Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.
— Dorothy Day
There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.
— Dorothy Day
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
— Dorothy Day
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.
— Dorothy Day
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
— Dorothy Allison
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
— Dorothy Day
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
— Dorothy Day
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
— Dorothy Day
To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
— Dorothy McGuire
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
— Dorothy Day
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
— Dorothy Day
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?
— Dorothy Day
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
— Dorothy Day
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
— Dorothy Day
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
— Dorothy Day
We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.
— Moira Kelly
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.
— Dorothy Day
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
— Dorothy Day
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
— Dorothy Day
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
— Dorothy Parker