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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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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
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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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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
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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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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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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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When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.
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People, wherever they are, can make a 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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We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.
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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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You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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The only solution is love.
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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
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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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