What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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