01UndatedEverything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
02UndatedThere are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
03UndatedThere was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
04UndatedNo one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
05UndatedOne of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
06UndatedMen are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
07UndatedOur faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
09UndatedIt is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
10UndatedWomen think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
11UndatedLove casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
12UndatedI believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
13UndatedWe are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
14UndatedThe legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.Dorothy Day / quote ↗
