Quotes by Dorothy Day

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

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

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

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

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

“Dont worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”