Dorothy Day Short Quotes

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

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Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

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We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

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Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens.

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

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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

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When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

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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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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

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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?

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We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.

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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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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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In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

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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.

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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.

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How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

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The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

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