But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON
When 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?
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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 is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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