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"34 Dorothy Day Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 November 1897. Died: 29 November 1980 | Journalist | Activist | Anarchist |

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

True obedience Of love It voluntary Not compelled
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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?

Greatest challenge Bring about Revolution The heart
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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Long loneliness Have learned Only solution Is love
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Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Don't worry Being effective Just concentrate Being faithful
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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Love God The person The least
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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.

To believe People Never mean They say
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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!

Think what The world Look like Took care
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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.

Plenty Own hearts Changing Own attitudes
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The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Biggest mistake Play things Very safe This life
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Women think Whole bodies See things
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey.

With prayer On cheerfully Even happily How grim
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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Common sense In religion Is rare Heroic
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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

My strength Returns to The reading The psalms
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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.

Sow time Reap time To church Quiet hour
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To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

Birth control Abortion Are genocide Make room
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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

Communities Made up Unlovable The lovable
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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

We love Enough Bear with Each other's
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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.

All want To love Be loved Our families
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Food The body Not enough The soul
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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Must talk About poverty People insulated Own comfort
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If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Change things Had better Have Your wits
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Love Casts out Fear Get over
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The only solution is love.
Only solution Is love
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The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Meet people More convinced Only work On ourselves
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Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Hard work A writer Become one Stop you
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If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

You feed The poor A saint You ask
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Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.

Love In action Is harsh Dreadful
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We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
Always aims The impossible We lower Our goal
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The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.

Best things In life Give them
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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.

Plant seeds Will flower Our lives The weed
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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

An act Love Voluntary talking The pain
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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless.There is too much work to do.

A right Sit down Feel hopeless Much work
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

Have achieved My life Been embarrassed Talk
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Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

Your love For God As great You have
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Dorothy Day Quotes & Sayings