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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
Editor
Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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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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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.
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We want no revolution we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.
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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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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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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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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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As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
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It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
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We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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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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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
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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.
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The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
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