In honour of Dorothy Day, and all she stood for.

Here's some quotes from one of the greatest women of our time.

■ The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

■ The true atheist is the one who denies God’s image in the ‘least of these’.

■ The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

■ We are not expecting Utopia here on this earth. But God meant things to be much easier than we have made them. A man has a natural right to food, clothing, and shelter... A family needs work as well as bread… We must keep repeating these things… Eternal life begins now.

■ We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

■ Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

■ I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

■ Spend your life working on something that outlasts it.

■ Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Nobel Goals for 2012

This was posted by one of my personal heroes, Shane Claiborne, on his blog. I thought it was so beautiful that I'd share, and perhaps try to carry these out myself as my resolutions. Why should January 1st be the only day to change?

12. Do something really nice – that no one knows about.

11. Spend more money on other people than I spend on my self. Love my neighbor as I love myself. And love myself as I love my neighbor.

10. Laugh often… especially at advertisements that try to convince me that I must buy more stuff in order to be happy.

9. Learn a new life skill – like carpentry, pottery, or canning vegetables. Teach someone else I life skill I know how to do.

8. Love a few people well, remembering that what is important is not how much we do but how much love we put into doing it.

7. Write a letter to someone I need to say thank you to. Write another letter to someone I need to ask to forgive me.

6. Track down a critic or someone I disagree with and take them to lunch. Listen to them.

5. Compliment someone I have a hard time complimenting… and mean it.

4. Choose life. Do something regularly to interrupt the patterns of death – do something to end violence, bullying, war, capital punishment and other mean and ugly things.

3. Pause before every potential crisis and ask “will this matter in 5 years?”

2. Get outside often and marvel at things like fireflies and shooting stars. And regularly get my hands into the garden… so when I type on the computer I can see dirt under my fingernails.

1. Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one