Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day
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  1. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

  2. 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?

  3. Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

  4. When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

  5. Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

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