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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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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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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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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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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
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Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
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People, wherever they are, can make a community.
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The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
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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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We are all one body, we are all one.
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
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Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.
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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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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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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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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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