QUOTES by Dorothy Day
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"What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that."
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"I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love."
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"For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was."
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"Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least."
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"If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God."
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"The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community."
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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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"An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all."
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"There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful."
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"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."
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"An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick."
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"We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship."
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"Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy."
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"We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort."
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"Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward."
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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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"How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. I believe we are called to the duty of delight."
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"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."
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"As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."
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"If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist."
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"Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane."
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"What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend."
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"Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up."
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"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."
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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."
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"Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you."
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"I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man."
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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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"The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war."
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"Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence."
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"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them."
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"If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you."
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"I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions."
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"We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it."
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"Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?"
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"What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?"
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