Dorothy Day - Saints Quotes

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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

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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.

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It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

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