Dorothy Day Quotes – Quoterati

Best Quotes by Dorothy Day (Top 10)

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
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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. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
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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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What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
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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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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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