Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day, Obl.S.B.,was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 November 1897
CityNew York City, NY
mean long saint
I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
prayer tears special
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
jesus war believe
I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.
people christ
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
judging judgement action
It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
hard-work writing want
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
heart government complaining
I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
thinking body whole
Women think with their whole bodies
book reading men
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.
hands expectations bird
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.
powerful fighting world
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
jesus liars world
Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.
integrity men world
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.
loneliness community answers
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.