QUOTES by Dorothy Day
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"True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force."
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"To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them."
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"If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold."
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"My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms."
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"We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true."
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"To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven."
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"Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind."
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"You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right."
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"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."
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"With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!"
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"When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right."
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"True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them."
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"Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?"
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"Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do."
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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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"Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it."
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"We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York."
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"Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live."
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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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"There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods."
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"Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!"
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"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 in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it."
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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."
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"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."
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