Dorothy Day Quotes

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

God always takes the simplest way.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.

If God had wanted these two rivers to be navigable, he could have effected it simply by a fiat, and it would be an infringement of the rights of providence to improve that which, for reasons not to be understood, it had wished to remain imperfect.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.