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.
Dorothy DayRead
God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them
Interpretation
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.
In practice
During a motivational talk about how to approach life's challenges.
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.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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.
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
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.
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
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