I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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