Dorothy DayEasy Essays by Peter Maurin co-fouder of the Catholic Worker
When You Love People
“When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.” — Dorothy Day from her On Pilgrimage column, April 1948
No One has the Right to Feel Hopeless.
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.” – Dorothy Day
Knowing Your Vocation
“You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you.” — Dorothy Day
(from an interview with Pat Jordan in “Dorothy Day: Portraits
by Those Who Knew Her” (Rosalie Riegle, Orbis Books, 2003), p 146)
Best to Disregard What People Say
“I have long since come to believe that people never
mean half of what they say, and it is best to disregard
their talk and judge only their actions.”
— Dorothy Day, 1952
Two Quotes from Dorothy Day
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom
that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
— Dorothy Day
The true atheist is the one who denies God’s image in the “least of these.”
— Dorothy Day
See God in Nature
“It is surely an exercise of faith for us to see Christ in each other. But it is through such exercise that we grow and the joy of our vocation assures us we are on the right path. Certainly, it is easier to believe now that the sun warms us, and we know that buds will appear on the trees in the wasteland across the street, that life will spring out of the dull clods of that littered park across the way.
There are wars and rumors of war, poverty and plague, hunger and pain. Still, the sap is rising, again there is the resurrection of spring, and God’s continuing promise to us that He is with us always, with His comfort and joy, if we will only ask.
— Dorothy Day
Life of Interest to Angels
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning
till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to
the angels.
—Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
Revolution of the Heart
“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?”
