Dorothy Day Quotes, Thoughts and image

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

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.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

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.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.