Dorothy Day Quotes

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

My religion is, to live through Love.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

Doing Good Is My Religion

My faith is central to everything I do. My faith position is a Good Samaritan position of trying to watch out for the other person.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Why does God endow us with compassion?