What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. - Dorothy Day
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
- Dorothy Day
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. - Dorothy Day
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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 change… - Dorothy Day
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 change…
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ… - Dorothy Day
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ…
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. - Dorothy Day
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
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 St… - Dorothy Day
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 St…
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. - Dorothy Day
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. - Dorothy Day
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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 … - Dorothy Day
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 …
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