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Dorothy Day Quotes about Giving

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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Dorothy Day
Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good
"Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

Dorothy Day
Prayer, Giving, Church

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

Dorothy Day
Life, Giving, Poverty
Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.33, A&C Black

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Dorothy Day
Prayer, Giving, Special

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Dorothy Day
Peace, Community Living, Giving

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

Dorothy Day
Coffee, Practice, Giving
Margaret Garvey, Dorothy Day (1982). “The Dorothy Day book”, Templegate Publishers

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

Dorothy Day
Men, Giving, Vision
"On Pilgrimage". Book by Dorothy Day, January 1970.

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