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
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Our actions and words have far-reaching effects, much like ripples in a pond from a pebble.
This quote by Dorothy Day illustrates the profound impact that our thoughts, words, and deeds can have on the world around us. Just as a small pebble creates ripples that extend outward in a pond, our every action can influence others and create a chain reaction, emphasizing the importance of mindfulness in our behavior and communication.
Themes
RipplesImpactThoughtsWordsDeeds
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote during a seminar on the importance of personal responsibility.
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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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