Dorothy Day Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

  Dorothy Day

  Sacrifice, Way, Worship

  "The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History", 1997.

• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Nursing, Fire

• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

• Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

  Dorothy Day

  Spiritual, Doe, Each Day

• Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Together, Mercy

  "On Pilgrimage".

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