When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. Dorothy Day More Quotes by Dorothy Day More Quotes From Dorothy Day Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least. Dorothy Day god-love persons love-you Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. Dorothy Day haphazard messy affair Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. Dorothy Day fear order reality Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence. Dorothy Day sacrifice worship way I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions. Dorothy Day strong pride men My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. Dorothy Day rejection movement party The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. Dorothy Day community loneliness answers When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic Dorothy Day sympathetic catholic church People, wherever they are, can make a community. Dorothy Day community people What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? Dorothy Day our-relationship family want God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them Dorothy Day easier made To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them. Dorothy Day abortion birth-control children Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? 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 evil order children As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Dorothy Day dream action relationship Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels. Dorothy Day angel morning night You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish. Dorothy Day appearing fool foolish The only solution is love. Dorothy Day solutions love The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Dorothy Day christian inspirational life To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them! Dorothy Day faults understanding thinking I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. Dorothy Day salvation poor believe
