Loaves And Fishes Dorothy Day Quotes & Sayings

We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in.
We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form saying, "We need bread." ... If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread.
We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made room for more. And somehow the walls were expanded.
We were just sitting there talking and someone said, "Let's all go live on a farm."
It was as casual as all that, I often think. It just came about. It just happened. — Dorothy Day

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps
located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq. — Eric Weiner

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces. — Jodi Picoult

In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world. — Frederick Lenz

I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air. — Mark Nepo

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. — Buchi Emecheta

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future. — Caroline Kepnes

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. — Tacitus

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around. — Jim Pattison

we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. — Dorothy Day

I have no idea what Paloma looks like-what she'll be like.
I have no idea what to expect.
I should've asked more questions.
I should've used the last ten hours to grill Chay until he broke-until he confided every dark and dirty secret Paloma is hiding.
Instead,I chose to eat.And read.And dream about some phantom boy with smooth brown skin,icy-blue eyes, and long glossy black hair-a boy I've never even met in real life.
Lot of good it did me. — Alyson Noel