Dorothy Day Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Christ

• 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.

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  Heart, Blood, Pieces

• "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.

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  Faith, Heart, People

• When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

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  Son, Thinking, People

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.124, A&C Black

• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

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  Mean, Bags, Poverty

• It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

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  Strong, House, Support

• 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!

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  Thinking, Understanding, Faults

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.255, A&C Black

• 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.

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  Men, Way, Steps

• When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

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  People, Christ

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.124, A&C Black

• Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.

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  Kings, Hands, Working Together

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.85, A&C Black

• Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

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  Jesus, Liars, World

• 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.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Night

  Dorothy Day, David Scott, Benedict J. Groeschel (2002). “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day”, p.38, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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