Dorothy Day Quotes

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  • Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

  • Some can go further than others.

  • Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

  • 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, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.4, A&C Black
  • As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

  • 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.

    Believe  
    "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.
  • Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

    "On Pilgrimage".
  • Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

  • Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

  • Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

  • People, wherever they are, can make a community.

  • It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

    "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.
  • I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

    "On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.
  • Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

  • They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

  • 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.

    Believe  
  • "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

  • 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.

    Long  
    Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.204, A&C Black
  • The sense is always that community is natural to people.

  • We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

  • 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.

    "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.
  • 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.

  • The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

  • Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.

  • 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?

    Believe  
  • If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

  • Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

    "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.
  • I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

  • It is people who are important, not the masses.

  • Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

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