Lives Transformed by Love

Body and soul constitute human nature.  The body is no less good than the soul.  In mortifying the natural we must not injure the body or the soul.  We are not to destroy but to transform it, as iron is transformed in the fire.  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.

"Although human nature is essentially good it is infected by original sin, which is forgiven at baptism, but the effects will remain in the soul. We are prone to evil. We have a bias toward evil." These are notes which I took.--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 257