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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Peace Activist
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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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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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.
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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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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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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 we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
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