Writing in jail after a protest over nuclear civil defense drills, Dorothy Day thought of the lessons of St Therese and her “Little Way”: “Thinking of war and peace, and the problem of human freedom, and the apathy of great masses of people who believe that nothing can be done...
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...when I thought of these things, I was all the more confirmed in my faith in the little way of St. Therese. We do the minute things that come to hand, we pray our prayers, and beg also for an increase of faith—and God will do the rest.”