TOP 20 Dorothy Day Quotes

TOP 20 Dorothy Day Quotes.

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
— Dorothy Day (00:00)

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
— Dorothy Day (00:07)

“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
— Dorothy Day (00:14)

“We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.”
— Dorothy Day (00:21)

“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
— Dorothy Day (00:28)

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day (00:35)

“It is people who are important, not the masses.”
— Dorothy Day (00:42)

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
— Dorothy Day (00:49)

“The only solution is love.”
— Dorothy Day (00:56)

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
— Dorothy Day (01:03)

“If you feed the poor, you’re a saint. If you ask why they’re poor, you’re a Communist.”
— Dorothy Day (01:10)

“No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.”
— Dorothy Day (01:17)

“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.”
— Dorothy Day (01:24)

“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
— Dorothy Day (01:31)

“You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.”
— Dorothy Day (01:38)

“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”
— Dorothy Day (01:45)

“God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them.”
— Dorothy Day (01:52)

“We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.”
— Dorothy Day (01:59)

“There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.”
— Dorothy Day (02:06)

“We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.”
— Dorothy Day (02:13)

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