I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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