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Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.
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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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The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
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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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How can you see Christ in people? And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.
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What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
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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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No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
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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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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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