For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.
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God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that life can be simpler if we do not complicate it with unnecessary challenges.
Dorothy Day's quote reflects the idea that the complexities and struggles we face in life are often self-imposed. It implies that our approach to life, decisions, and challenges could be more straightforward if we align our actions with a deeper understanding of purpose and simplicity, allowing us to appreciate the inherent ease that exists.
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SimplicityEaseLifePhilosophyUnderstanding
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Example use cases
During a motivational talk about how to approach life's challenges.
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As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
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The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
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We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.
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