Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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