203 Quotes by Dorothy Day

If you feed the poor, you’re a saint. If you ask why they’re poor, you’re a Communist.

As Dostoevski said: ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions...

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart’s blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.

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

You see I’m such a fool that I’m never afraid of appearing foolish.

Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that ’all things work together for good for those that love Him.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them.