Dorothy Day Quotes

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

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.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

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.

Some can go further than others.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

We are all one body, we are all one.

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.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

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.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

Man is not meant to live alone.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.