Dorothy Day: Trending quotes (page 2)

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

“It is people who are important, not the masses.”

“The final word is love.”

“Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.”

“We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“Love and ever more love
is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”

“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.”

“As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”

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

“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!”

“But I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it. So we are urging revolutionary change.”

“Now the creed to which I subscribe is like a battle cry, engraved on my heart - the Credo of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Before, in those former times, I could say, "I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be" (Job 7:21). Now I can say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the last day I shall rise out of the earth. And I shall be clothed with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see God. Whom I myself shall see and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom" (Job 19:25-27).”

“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.”

“I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.”

“We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.”

“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”