Quotes by : Dorothy Day

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

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

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

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,....

My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?'....

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

MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly....

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects....