Dorothy Day Quotes

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• I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

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  Women, History, God Love

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• People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

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  People, Effort, Deeds

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• What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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  Heart, Oasis, Cells

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• As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

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  War, Our World, Racism

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• Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

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  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  "On Pilgrimage".

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• If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

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  Saint, Communist, Poor

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

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  Forever, Poor, Undeserving

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• The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.

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  Brother, Heart, Passion

  "Loaves and Fishes". Book by Dorothy Day, 1963.

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• Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

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  Success, Effectiveness, Worry

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  No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

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  Wisdom, Peace, Down And

  "Singing the Living Tradition" by the Unitarian Universalist Association, (p. 560), 1993.

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• 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.

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  Love, People, Grace

  Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.326, Image

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

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  Love You, God Love, Persons

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• 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.

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  Voice, People, Evil

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Community Living

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• The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

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  Mistake, Play, Safe

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

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  Acceptance, Tyrants, Rotten

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

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• Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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  Heart, Enemy, Dear God

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• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

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  Life, Forgiveness, Weed

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• You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

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  Joy, Vocation, Knows

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• If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Embarrassed

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• You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

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  Agonizing

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• I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

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  Prayer, Love You, Heart

  "House of hospitality".

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• We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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  Sight, People, Comfort

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

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  Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

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  Cities, People, Community

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