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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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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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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
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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 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?
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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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The sense is always that community is natural to people.
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It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
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We are all one body, we are all one.
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When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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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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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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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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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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