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
loneliness being-alone community-living
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
agonizing
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
food soul body
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
mistake play safe
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
thank-god problem mediocre
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
faults bears enough
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
communism has-beens
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
loneliness community answers
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
time evil people
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young 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; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.
integrity men world
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
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.
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.
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.
glasses underestimate get-up
Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.