Dorothy Day Quotes

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

With renunciation life begins.

Material things don't matter.

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

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

I don't like possessions.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

I am totally unattached to material items.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.