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• To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

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  Children, Order, People

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• If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

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  Two, Coats, Poor

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• When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

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  People, Christ

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.124, A&C Black

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• There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

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  Hate, Effort, World

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• True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

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  Love Is, Men, People

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

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  War, Nursing, Fire

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

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  Strong Women, Thinking, Body

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• Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

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  Common Sense, Trying, Heroic

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• With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

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  Prayer, Journey, Goes On

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• People, wherever they are, can make a community.

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  People, Community

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• True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

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  Children, Matter, Obedience

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• "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

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  Faith, Heart, People

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• If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

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  Prayer, Giving, Church

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• What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

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  Compassion, People, World

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• If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

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  Faults, Bears, Enough

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.30, A&C Black

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• No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

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  Church, May, Matter

  Dorothy Day (2010). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, Ohio University Center for International Studies

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• The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

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  Life, Giving, Poverty

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.33, A&C Black

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• So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.

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  Mean, Men, Heaven

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• We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

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  Obligation, Commandments

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• I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

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  Strong, Pride, Men

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• The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

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  Loneliness, Community, Answers

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.184, Image

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• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Night

  Dorothy Day, David Scott, Benedict J. Groeschel (2002). “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day”, p.38, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

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  Brother, Believe, Mean

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• Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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  Children, Order, Evil

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• I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

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  Believe, Poor, Salvation

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