I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.' Dorothy Day More Quotes by Dorothy Day More Quotes From Dorothy Day It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all. Dorothy Day saint attention thinking The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned. Dorothy Day men believe thinking 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. Dorothy Day bags poverty mean 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. Dorothy Day brother christian country Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. Dorothy Day political party trying Charity is only as warm as those who administer it. Dorothy Day warm charity Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate. Dorothy Day mercy brother together We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off. Dorothy Day war believe children Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles? Dorothy Day flower believe fall 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. Dorothy Day steps men way It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. Dorothy Day delight mind joy One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. Dorothy Day spiritual life-is facts If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders. Dorothy Day vision giving men Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter. Dorothy Day liars world jesus Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. Dorothy Day mediocrity proud names Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed. Dorothy Day feds air bird These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track. Dorothy Day track working-together people Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it. Dorothy Day bitterness lasts sorrow Some can go further than others. Dorothy Day It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man. Dorothy Day godlike sin men
