Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONSt. 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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But 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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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