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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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People, wherever they are, can make a community.
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If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
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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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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
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Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.
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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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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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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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If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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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.
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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.
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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
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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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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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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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I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.
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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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