Toward a Better World

As her radical friends seemed to appreciate, conversion had not lessened her passion for a better world; it had started her along the path toward a vision that they shared, no matter what they called it or how they defined it.  Both Dorothy and her radical friends were seeking community, the final and complete harmonization of all. The difference was that her friends talked of this goal as something that would crown their revolutionary struggle--that would be found in time.  But for Dorothy, as she came to see, the way was love and the end was eternity. "All my life I have been haunted by God," she says, quoting the character Kirilov in Dostoevsky's The Possessed. And she believed that this was true of her friends, for as she says, "I do believe every soul has a tendency towards God."--William D. Miller, Dorothy Day: A Biography, pg. 199.