Quotes by : Dorothy Day

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

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting....

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

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

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love....

When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter,....

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.....

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the....

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

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.