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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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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To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
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There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
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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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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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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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We are all one body, we are all one.
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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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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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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
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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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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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The only solution is love.
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There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.
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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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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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