Dorothy Day quotes - page 2

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. (Dorothy Day)
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. View quote
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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it. View quote
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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. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. View quote
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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. View quote
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. View quote
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Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. View quote
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. View quote
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To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them! View quote
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. View quote
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The final word is love. (Dorothy Day)
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. View quote
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When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. View quote
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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. View quote
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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. View quote
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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production. View quote
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Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. View quote
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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 he must seek strength in common action. View quote
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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. View quote
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. View quote
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It is people who are important, not the masses. (Dorothy Day)
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling. View quote
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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. View quote
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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. View quote
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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm. View quote
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