Dorothy Day Quotes
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...
Show MoreI believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting...
Show MoreOur problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal...
Show MoreIf I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful paint...
Show MoreIt is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and s...
Show MoreWhen it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love ...
Show MoreOne of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young...
Show MoreNo one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...
Show MoreThe world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of th...
Show MoreWe are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and som...
Show MoreThere was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were nei...
Show MoreThe greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...
Show MoreWriting is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who ser...
Show MoreWomen think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving p...
Show MoreDon't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom...
Show MoreI have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ...
Show MoreLove casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He ex...
Show MoreLove is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-e...
Show MoreMEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it ...
Show MoreWe have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that lo...
Show MoreI was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over...
Show MoreWe suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions ...
Show MoreMy soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of G...
Show MoreWhen we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter...
Show MoreWe were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in.We were just sitting there talking when...
Show MoreThe legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
