203 Quotes by Dorothy Day

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

The final word is love.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.