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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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Progress comes through patience and persistence, achieving goals step by step.
This quote by Dorothy Day emphasizes the importance of taking gradual steps towards our goals rather than trying to accomplish everything all at once. It suggests that success is a result of consistent effort and that we should focus on the process of building our dreams, step by step, rather than becoming overwhelmed by the enormity of the task ahead.
Themes
ProgressPersistenceStepsGoalsEffort
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech discussing perseverance in achieving long-term goals.
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All quotes →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.
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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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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.
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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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