As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Dorothy DayTwo years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?
Dorothy DayThere is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.
Dorothy Day