Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.
Dorothy DayIt is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
Dorothy DayWe're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.
Dorothy DayNo matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
Dorothy DayWith prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
Dorothy Day