Dorothy Day Quotes
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Dorothy Day Quotes & Sayings
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
— Dorothy Day
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
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
— 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
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
— Dorothy Day
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.
— Dorothy Day
There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.
— Dorothy Day
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
— Dorothy Day
Freedom has its roots in religion ...
— Dorothy Day
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
— Dorothy Day
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
— Dorothy Draper
If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God. — Dorothy Day
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
— Dorothy Parker
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
— Dorothy Day
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
— Dorothy Day
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
— Dorothy Day
Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan ... Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
— Dorothy Parker
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
— Dorothy Day
Have we even begun to be Christians?
— Dorothy Day
The final word is love.
— Dorothy Day
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
— Dorothy Day
A conversion is a lonely experience.
— Dorothy Day
Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
— Dorothy Day
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
— Dorothy Day
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
— Dorothy Day
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
— Dorothy Parker
Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day
— Patrick Jordan
It is people who are important, not the masses.
— Dorothy Day
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
— Dorothy Day
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
— Dorothy Day
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
— Dorothy Day
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
— Dorothy Day
This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.
— Dorothy Parker
Our rule is the works of mercy ... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
— Dorothy Day
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
— 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
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
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
— 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
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
— 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
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
— Dorothy Day
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
— Dorothy Day
It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Elephants gave you less bother, any day.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
— Dorothy Day
We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.
— Moira Kelly
She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.
— Dorothy Parker
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
— Dorothy Day
If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
— Dorothy Day
I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
— Shane Claiborne
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
— Dorothy Day
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The only solution is love.
— Dorothy Day
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
— Dorothy Day
