Dorothy Day Quotes

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

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

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

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

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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