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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
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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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The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
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Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
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We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
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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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I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?
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The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'
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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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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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A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
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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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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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The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
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