Work on Ourselves

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
― Dorothy Day

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
― Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
― Dorothy Day

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
― Dorothy Day

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
― Dorothy Day

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
― Dorothy Day

“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
― Dorothy Day

“You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.”
― Dorothy Day

“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
― Dorothy Day

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”
― Dorothy Day

“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
― Dorothy Day

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
― Dorothy Day

“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”
― Dorothy Day, All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day

“The final word is love.”
― Dorothy Day

“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.”
― Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

“Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.”
― Dorothy Day

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
― Dorothy Day

“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”
― Dorothy Day