We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
From Dorothy Day
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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?
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
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