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.
ALAN PATONWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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