We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely. Dorothy Day More Quotes by Dorothy Day More Quotes From Dorothy Day Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live. Dorothy Day readingmenbook What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. Dorothy Day pondsdeedswant What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. Dorothy Day pondscirclesrights My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. Dorothy Day cupscoffeereading We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship. Dorothy Day companionshipbreadheaven 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. Dorothy Day forgivenessweedlife I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. Dorothy Day inspirationalmeanbelieve We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort. Dorothy Day effortgoalimpossible An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick. Dorothy Day eyehomechildren You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right. Dorothy Day vocationknowsjoy 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. Dorothy Day prayerlove-youheart Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles! Dorothy Day halflooksthinking The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. Dorothy Day safeplaymistake 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? Dorothy Day catholicchallengesheart Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. Dorothy Day atheismatheistchrist If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God. Dorothy Day embarrassedinspirationfaith 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. Dorothy Day peoplesonthinking Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. Dorothy Day dear-godheartenemy We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. Dorothy Day governmentsufferingnew-york We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us. Dorothy Day saintnamesmight
