203 Quotes by Dorothy Day

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

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.

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young 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 be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.