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?
ALAN PATONI envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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