Dorothy Day Quotes

The greatest challenge of our time is to create a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart?

Our faith needs to be incarnated in the world – and in our own backyard.

The greatest challenge is to live historically and not just by routine.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The love of God reflects itself in the love of men and women.

We have to persist in the struggle for justice, even if we don’t see immediate results.

Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.

What we would like to do is change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe and shelter themselves as God intended them to do.

Love is the only solution to every problem that comes our way.

Love is the measure by which we are judged.

We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

To love one another as we love ourselves is the great turning point in world history.

Dorothy Day Quotes part 2

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

We are too prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

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.

We can only love one person at a time – spending time with this one and only person.

The mystery of the poor is this: that they are Jesus, and that what you do for them you do for Him.

We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

It is in the face of the poor that we see the face of God.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this dirty, rotten system.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war.

Our faith needs to be incarnated in the world – and in our own backyard.

We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

People who live in rotted shambles are human beings, too.

The world does not mold morality; its source is God.

We are trying to rebuild society is based on the Gospel.

Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service.

The duty of the moment is what you should be doing just now.

To give publicity to these faults doesn’t mean we love the church less.

We must live in such a way that we are a visible sign of God’s love and mercy.

All the houses in the world put together cannot make a home.

When I became a Catholic, I did not give up my rationality, nor my critical spirit.

We desire it here and now. We must begin today.

Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

It is not enough to expect God’s mercy for ourselves.

If we lived close to nature in the country, we should understand the working of God better than we do in town.

Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the initiative to reach out in some way?

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

We need to remember that poverty isn’t something we can just throw money at and hope it goes away.

The mystery of the poor is this: that they are Jesus.

We must give up our pride, our ego, and our despair.

We are called to love as Christ loved, without counting the cost.

We cannot separate the ‘spiritual’ and ‘worldly’ aspects of our lives; they are intricately connected.