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Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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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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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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What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.
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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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The only solution is love.
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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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Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.
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The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.
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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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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
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People, wherever they are, can make a 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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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
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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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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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A conversion is a lonely experience.
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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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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
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I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.
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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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