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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?

Dorothy Day

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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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Suffragist
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How can you see Christ in people? And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.
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It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
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Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
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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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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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No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
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One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
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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.
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To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
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I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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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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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
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The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
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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. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.
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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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