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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
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Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
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God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
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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.
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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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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
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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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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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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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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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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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