Dorothy Day World Quotations

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

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.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.