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
women history god-love
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
forever poor undeserving
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
saint communist poor
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
success effectiveness worry
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
loneliness being-alone community-living
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
forgiveness weed flower
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.
attitude heart neighborhood
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
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.
atheist atheism christ
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
voice evil people
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.
taken mean saint
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
mistake play safe
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
love-is men people
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.