Too much work to do…
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980
Take one step…
Young people say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Living day to day…
It is the living from day to day, taking no thought for the morrow, seeing Christ in all who come to us, and trying literally to follow the Gospel that resulted in this work.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Given to Christ…
For he [Christ] said that a glass of water given to a beggar was given to him. He had Heaven hinge on the way we act toward him in his disguise of commonplace, frail, ordinary humanity. Did you give me food when I was hungry? Did you give me to drink when I was thirsty? Did you give me clothes when my own were rags? Did you come to see me when I was sick, or in prison or in trouble? And to those who say, aghast, that they never had a chance to do such a thing, that they lived two thousand years too late, he will say again what they had the chance of knowing all their lives, that if these things were done for the very least of his brethren they were done to him.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
We have only today…
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Must be time…
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.
–Saint John Paul (1920-2005)
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