Top 100 Quotes About Dorothy Day
#1. Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
Studs Terkel
#2. I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane Claiborne
#3. An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.
Moira Kelly
#4. I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
Moira Kelly
#5. We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.
Moira Kelly
#6. Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day
Patrick Jordan
#7. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.
Henri Nouwen
#8. True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
Dorothy Day
#9. Be kind to her when she comes back. Her love is not only for children but for humanity. She will be a good-hearted and magnificent zealot one day. As her mother is now.
Goodbye, Kate. And below he had signed as he rarely did, with his Christian name.
Dorothy Dunnett
#10. Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.
Dorothy Day
#11. One 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
#12. Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.
Dorothy Day
#13. My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart,
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
Dorothy Parker
#14. God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them
Dorothy Day
#15. For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.
Dorothy Day
#16. Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
Dorothy Day
#17. The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
Dorothy Day
#18. He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.
Dorothy Koomson
#19. Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day
#20. When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
Dorothy Day
#21. The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
Dorothy Day
#22. Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
Dorothy Day
#23. To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
Dorothy Day
#24. Men 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
#25. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
Dorothy Day
#26. The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.
Dorothy Day
#27. There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
Dorothy Day
#28. Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Dorothy Day
#29. 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.
Dorothy Day
#30. As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
Dorothy Day
#32. This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.
Dorothy Parker
#33. If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
Dorothy Day
#34. Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
Dorothy Day
#35. On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#36. I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
Dorothy Day
#37. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
Dorothy Day
#38. We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
Dorothy Day
#39. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Dix
#40. Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
Dorothy Day
#41. To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading ... To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.
Dorothy Day
#42. To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.
Dorothy McGuire
#43. Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.
Dorothy Koomson
#44. We 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
#45. Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Dorothy Day
#46. As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Dorothy Day
#47. The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
Dorothy Day
#48. The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
Dorothy Day
#49. This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
Dorothy Day
#50. The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Dorothy Day
#51. First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
Dorothy Day
#52. If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
Dorothy Day
#53. Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
Dorothy Day
#54. You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
Dorothy Day
#55. Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#56. 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.
Dorothy Day
#57. Of all the charges made against the Communists these days of congressional investigations, the charge of loose morals is seldom heard, so very loose have become those of "Christian" people.
Dorothy Day
#58. As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day
#59. The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
Dorothy Day
#60. It is people who are important, not the masses.
Dorothy Day
#61. I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Dorothy Day
#63. "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God ...
Dorothy Day
#64. 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.
Dorothy Day
#65. That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death.
Dorothy Dunnett
#66. If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because
I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
Dorothy Day
#67. Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
Dorothy Draper
#68. Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.
Dorothy Day
#69. Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
Dorothy Day
#70. When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic
to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to
the right.
Dorothy Day
#71. Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan ... Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
Dorothy Parker
#72. Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.
Dorothy Day
#73. Take a deep breath
Pick yourself up,
dust yourself off
Start all over again
And again and again and again.
May be easier said than done, but it can be done. Slowly but surely - and sometimes, not so surely, but with radical hope.
Step by precious step.Hour by hour.Day by day.
KERN JEROME FIELDS DOROTHY
#74. 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.
Dorothy Day
#75. No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
Dorothy Day
#76. The practical utility of Formal Logic to-day lies not so much in the establishment of positive conclusions as in the prompt detection and exposure of invalid inference.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#77. The ideal way to live would be always to treat each day, each encounter with loved ones, as one's last. Only thus could one avoid the endless self-reproach, self-recrimination, with which so many flagellate themselves after a sudden loss.
Dorothy Simpson
#79. Our 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
#80. Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
Dorothy Day
#82. Our rule is the works of mercy ... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
Dorothy Day
#83. 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?
Dorothy Day
#84. Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
Dorothy Day
#85. It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
Dorothy Parker
#86. When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
Dorothy Day
#87. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Dorothy Day
#88. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#89. We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.
Dorothy Day
#90. It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
Dorothy Day
#91. Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
Dorothy Day
#92. Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Dorothy Day
#93. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
Dorothy Day
#94. Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Dorothy Day
#95. I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.
Dorothy Day
#96. She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.
Dorothy Parker
#97. I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
Dorothy Day
#98. 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.
Dorothy Day
#99. One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Dorothy Day
#100. You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
Dorothy Day
