Dorothy Day Quotes

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

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.

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

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.

If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.

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

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.