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The sense is always that community is natural to people.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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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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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
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It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
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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 solution is love.
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
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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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