Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B.,was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 November 1897
CityNew York City, NY
hard-work writing want
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
judging judgement action
It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
jesus war believe
I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
sorrow lasts bitterness
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
prayer tears special
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
kings hands working-together
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.
philosophy sublime stronger
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
nice writing knitting-needles
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
thinking attention way
It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
pain believe struggle
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.
natural planes
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
spiritual facts life-is
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
community battle goes-on
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
charity warm
Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.