Top 23 Maurin Quotes

#1. Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day

Patrick Jordan

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#2. I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

Shane Claiborne

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#3. Faith is built upon belief, and belief is built upon evidence, one step at a time.

Douglas James Cottrell

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#4. I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Peter Maurin

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#5. What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

Peter Maurin

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#6. The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned.

Milton S. Hershey

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#7. A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

Patsy Cline

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#8. If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

Peter Maurin

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#9. I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

Nicholas Sparks

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#10. Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods

Peter Maurin

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#11. The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off.

Peter Maurin

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#12. The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

Peter Maurin

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#13. What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call

Sara Teasdale

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#14. Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.

Soseki Natsume

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#15. The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

Peter Maurin

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#16. He brushed my curls back off my face. I never pictured my life so complete. I never thought I'd have everything I want. You're everything to me, Angel.

Becca Fitzpatrick

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#17. It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.

Peter Maurin

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#18. Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

Carol Lee Flinders

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#19. The future will be different if we make the present different.

Peter Maurin

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#20. People are bundles of pain and fear, each wearing their own brand of misery," he continued. "Trust me, I know. When they're at the end of their rope, they come here, with their stories.

Leslie Wolfe

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#21. Like a drop in the ocean, so a single person carries within themselves the universe surrounding them.

Terez Virag

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#22. I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

Joan Collins

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#23. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Peter Maurin

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