"I'm tired of hearing myself called 'saintly.' Such a way of disregarding what we all have to do in our own ways - follow God's lead! To call me 'saintly' is to rob and cheat me - of my very humanity! I am as mean and nasty in my head and heart as all the rest of us here. Every day we fail spiritually. Who is an exception to that - who gets an A plus in the eyes of God? Not me! Just this morning, I was thinking of someone I know with a terrible anger and scorn in my heart! I tried to forget the person; I worked on the soup line, serving others in order to help myself a little!"
-Dorothy Day, as quoted by Robert Coles
in an essay from his Harvard Diary
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