Source: On Pilgrimage
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Famous Dorothy Day Quotes
“If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.”
Source: The Dorothy Day book
“The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.”
“We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.”
“What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.”
“Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.”
“A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.”
“The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'”
“You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.”
“Man is not meant to live alone.”
Source: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
“Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.”
“It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.”
“There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.”
“Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.”
“Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.”
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”