These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONSt. 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.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONNow God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONWhat 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 have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONWise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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