Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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 to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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