Author: Dorothy Day

Quotes

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

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

- Dorothy Day

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

- Dorothy Day

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

- Dorothy Day

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

- 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.

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 legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

- Dorothy Day

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

- Dorothy Day

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

- Dorothy Day

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