If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you. Dorothy Day More Quotes by Dorothy Day More Quotes From Dorothy Day Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day bodysoulfood "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. Dorothy Day faithheartpeople The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love. Dorothy Day povertygivinglife True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. Dorothy Day obediencematterchildren Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it. Dorothy Day simplewritingreality Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer? Dorothy Day prayerbelievepeople Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. Dorothy Day strong-womenbodythinking To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven. Dorothy Day orderchildrenpeople True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them. Dorothy Day love-ismenpeople We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true. Dorothy Day our-livesshouldway If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold. Dorothy Day churchprayergiving The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was. Dorothy Day integritymenworld Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily. Dorothy Day saintsuccessmotivational You can spend your time agonizing or organizing. Dorothy Day agonizing The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities. Dorothy Day artistmenphilosophy 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. Dorothy Day compassionpeopleworld One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young 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; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. Dorothy Day eviltimepeople With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey! Dorothy Day journeyprayergoes-on No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. Dorothy Day churchmattermay Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. Dorothy Day heroiccommon-sensetrying
