Dorothy Day Quotes

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

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?

Don't 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.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.