What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life. Dorothy Day More Quotes by Dorothy Day More Quotes From Dorothy Day The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.' Dorothy Day vatican-ii supreme conscience The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down. Dorothy Day revolution struggle long The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy. Dorothy Day views men philosophy There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort. Dorothy Day effort hate world Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions. Dorothy Day army brother believe We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill. Dorothy Day coffee practice giving Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery? Dorothy Day saint trying order To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts and imaginations at least) to face any kind of suffering when motivated by noble aims like the vague and tremendous concept of freedom ... Or, in their humility (or sloth - who knows?) men are quite willing to leave decisions to others 'who know more about it than we do. Dorothy Day eye humility war When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. Dorothy Day communist rotten people Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people. Dorothy Day moral christian people So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family. Dorothy Day men heaven mean Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong. Dorothy Day too-much praise feels We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice. Dorothy Day struggle sleep reality Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. Dorothy Day hard-work want writing Freedom has its roots in religion. Dorothy Day roots And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness. Dorothy Day husband loneliness children 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. Dorothy Day reading spiritual night This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom. Dorothy Day luxury taken country Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence. Dorothy Day silence expectations hands We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. Dorothy Day powerful fighting world
