Dorothy Day
“We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted.”
“Paperwork, cleaning the house, cooking—all the things no one else wanted to do—was my share of the work.”
“The mystery of the poor is this: that they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him.”
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time.”
“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”
“If you feed the poor, you’re a saint. If you ask why they are poor, you’re a communist.”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.”
“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.”