Quote

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Dorothy Day

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Life
Flower
Manifest
Results
Abundance
Doubt
Remove
Humanity
Seeds
Peace
Envy
Lives
Forgiveness
Weeds
May
Plant
Avarice
Best
Anger
Weed

More quotes by Dorothy Day

Image
People, wherever they are, can make a community.
Dorothy Day
Image
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
Dorothy Day
Image
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.
Dorothy Day
Image
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
Dorothy Day
Image
You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.
Dorothy Day
Image
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.
Dorothy Day
Image
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
Image
Some can go further than others.
Dorothy Day
Image
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
Image
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Dorothy Day
Image
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
Dorothy Day
Image
The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'
Dorothy Day
Image
It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.
Dorothy Day
Image
Women think with their whole bodies
Dorothy Day
Image
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Dorothy Day
Image
The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.
Dorothy Day
Image
Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.
Dorothy Day
Image
There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
Dorothy Day
Image
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.
Dorothy Day
Image
I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
Dorothy Day