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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.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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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 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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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
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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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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
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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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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.
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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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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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How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
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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 firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.
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