Quote by Dorothy Day
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fu

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. – Dorothy Day

Other quotes by Dorothy Day

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. – Dorothy Day

Category:
Worry
Read Quote

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. – Dorothy Day

Category:
alone
Read Quote

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

Category:
Tradition
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Faith
category

Faith is the heroism of the intellect. – Charles Henry Parkhurst

Category:
Faith

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. – David Brainerd

Category:
Faith

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Category:
Faith

My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

Category:
Faith

Random Quotes

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Experience

A week is a long time in politics. – Harold Wilson

Category:
Politics

Its fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated. – Selma Blair

Category:
mom

Of lifes two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborers hand. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Beauty