David Mills has posted some thought-provoking words from Dorothy Day, and linked to some others. I thought some of them worth repeating:

• “Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.”
• “We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.”
• “Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity.”
• “I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
• “Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
• “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.”
• “It is people who are important, not the masses.”
• “Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.”
• “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
• “I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor, … but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man’s dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel proud of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.”
• “My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. “
• “To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!”
• “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily. “
• “The final word is love.”
• “As Dostoevski said: ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.'”
• “Writing is hard work.”
• “I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.”
• “Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
• “If we do not keep indoctrinating, we lose the vision. And if we lose the vision, we become merely philanthropists, doling out palliatives.”
• “We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.”
• “Our common action in the Sacrifice of the Mass, impersonal, anti-individualistic is the best weapon against the world. “
• “Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.”