pietwombly's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
wren_in_black's review against another edition
4.0
This is not a book I would have chosen on my own. It was chosen for me by my seminary instructor. That said, I did actually enjoy this book and the ease of Day's prose gives voice to many truths. I feel like this particular selection of writings skims over Day's unhappy love affair, abortion, and her subsequent marriage to Berkeley Tobey. As Day was a very introspective woman, I would have appreciated more excerpts on this time of her life and how her perspective on that time changed after her conversion and as she grew into her life's work. I would have like to have seen more from The Eleventh Virgin, her earliest book, to get a more complete picture.
There are many quotes that I enjoyed in this book, but this one cautioned me and stuck with me the most, as I am a postulant to the priesthood with my own ministry ahead of me:
“But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
“Religion as it was practiced by those I encountered had no vitality. It had nothing to do with everyday life; it was a matter of Sunday praying.”
There are many quotes that I enjoyed in this book, but this one cautioned me and stuck with me the most, as I am a postulant to the priesthood with my own ministry ahead of me:
“But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
“Religion as it was practiced by those I encountered had no vitality. It had nothing to do with everyday life; it was a matter of Sunday praying.”
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