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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Dorothy Day
Coffee, Reading, Cups

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

Dorothy Day
Book, Reading, Men
Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (2008). “The duty of delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day”, Marquette Univ Pr

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Dorothy Day
Spiritual, Reading, Night
Dorothy Day, David Scott, Benedict J. Groeschel (2002). “Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day”, p.38, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

Dorothy Day
Reading, Men, Order
"On Pilgrimage". "Catholic Worker", December 1968.

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