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The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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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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Some can go further than others.
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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
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